Shared content blocks

A shared content block is an HTML fragment (a piece of an HTML document) that you create once and then insert in as many documents as you want. However, unlike a fragment that is simply copied from one document to another, each copy of a shared block retains a kind of connection to its source, so that changes you make to the shared block’s source can be replicated automatically in every copy.

You can create a shared content block from almost any part of any Web document, such as a table, a layer, a set of navigation links, and so forth: if you can select it in Edit mode, you can make it into a shared block. Namo WebEditor stores shared content blocks in .nsc files, which are HTML files that contain just HTML fragments, rather than whole documents. To edit a shared content block, you edit the .nsc file that contains its source.

Namo Web Editor icon note Shared content blocksYou can only create and use shared content blocks in documents that belong to a local siteA managed collection of documents, folders, and resource files on the local file system that you intend to publish as a Web site.. If a local site is not open, the commands related to shared content will not be available.

In this section

Creating and managing shared content blocks

Inserting a shared content block

Editing and updating shared content blocks

Converting shared content to ordinary content

Shared content blocks