How do I edit my theme HTML?

In the Site Admin, the ‘Themes’ tab located under ‘Design’ contains the site’s theme HTML (otherwise known as “skins” or templates).

In the Site Admin, the ‘Themes’ tab located under ‘Design’ contains the site’s theme HTML (otherwise known as “skins” or templates). In a typical site design, the HTML will handle the layout of the theme while CSS will deal with the format and presentation.
To modify the HTML for the current site theme skin, click on the pencil icon (‘edit’) and you will be presented with a screen similar to Example 1.1:

Example 1.1


The skin is a combination of HTML, CSS, and Pixelsilk tokens, which will typically be a mix of system-level tokens (e.g. [[PageTitle]], [[MetaDescription]]) and control tokens.

(Tokens represent additional content—which can be HTML, CSS, JavaScript or anything else—which will be inserted into the theme when Pixelsilk renders the page.)

As you can see, the HTML in this edit box is color-coded and the box provides line numbers for ease of editing. You can edit the HTML directly inline or copy and paste the HTML into your favorite editor and make your changes off-line (be sure to click the ‘Save’ button in the upper right corner of the window). Just be sure to copy and paste those changes back to this skin!

Any changes you make to the skin will become active as soon as you click ‘Save.’

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