Referencing and Editing External HTML

In addition to content you create and maintain in Page view, your site might also include pages that require special, hand-coded HTML. Instead of importing and converting this HTML, you can reference HTML files externally and place them anywhere in your site.

You can manage the external assets for your referenced file in Assets view. Also, apply a consistent look to the published pages of referenced files by assigning a MasterBorder. You can edit referenced files in HTML Source view or in an external HTML editor such as Notepad. To specify a default external HTML editor, see Setting Program Options.

You can reference files located on a hard disk or LAN, but not from a remote Web server. Also, <A HREF> links in the original HTML files should point to other HTML files and anchors within those files using relative rather than absolute path names. See Managing Referenced Assets for information.

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