When you edit HTML templates manually Help & Manual does not verify the code in any way. You are entirely responsible for checking and testing the code you write. It is a always good idea to back up your template in an external text file before editing.
You can always revert to the standard default template with the Reset Defaults button (see below), but you should make backups of working versions of your own edited templates before you make more changes. Reverting to the default template overwrites the entire template with the standard version – it does not return you to your own previous version. Copy the entire contents of the template, paste it to an editor and save it in an external file. Then if anything goes wrong you can always paste the original version from the saved file back into the template editing window. |
Sooner or later editing your HTML templates will cause errors in your output. This cannot be avoided and it happens to the best of us. If you make a lot of different changes before testing your output it can be very difficult to localize which change is causing the problem. To avoid this kind of frustration you should always make changes gradually, one step at a time. After each change publish and test your output before proceeding to the next change. Then you will always know which change is causing the problem and it will be much easier to correct. |
You can always restore the default template. Just select Reset in the template editing screen. However, this will completely replace your version of the template with the standard version, so you will also lose any earlier changes you may have made to it. If you have not already done so, make a backup of your own version before reverting to the default |
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