If your selection contains server-side code, Dreamweaver does not allow you to transform it into an editable or repeating region. This issue has to do with how InContext Editing saves editable pages when the user is working in the browser. When a user saves the page after editing, InContext Editing removes server-side code from the region.

When the selection you want to transform on your page can’t be transformed directly, Dreamweaver needs to wrap the selection with div tags that will act as the container for your new editable or repeating region. For this reason, the parent tags of what you want to transform must allow div tags as children. If the parent tag of the tag you’re trying to transform doesn’t permit child div tags, Dreamweaver will not allow you to perform the transformation.

If your selection is inside an editable region, or if there is an editable region within the selection, Dreamweaver does not allow you to perform the transformation. InContext Editing does not support nested editable regions.

InContext Editing editable regions cannot contain any other InContext Editing functionality. If you try to add a repeating region or a repeating regions group to an editable region, Dreamweaver does not allow you to perform the transformation.

InContext Editing editable regions cannot contain any other InContext Editing functionality. If you try to add a repeating region or a repeating regions group to an editable region, Dreamweaver does not allow you to perform the transformation. Additionally, Dreamweaver will not transform an element into an editable or repeating region if it already contains a repeating regions group.

If your selection is inside a repeating region, or if there is a repeating region within the selection, Dreamweaver does not allow you to perform the transformation. InContext Editing does not support nested repeating regions.

When working with Dreamweaver template files (.dwt files), you must follow certain rules. To transform a Dreamweaver template editable/repeating region into an InContext Editing editable/repeating region, you must select exactly one Dreamweaver template editable/repeating region on the page and then transform it. To transform another selection on the page (for example, a block of text), the selection must be within a Dreamweaver template editable region.

If your selection is not a div tag, and already has a repeating region attribute applied to it, Dreamweaver will not allow you to apply the editable region attribute to that tag as well. Only div tags can have the editable region and repeating region attributes applied simultaneously.

All InContext Editing repeating regions must exist within a repeating regions group. When you add a new repeating region to a page, Dreamweaver detects if there is already a repeating regions group immediately before it. If there is, Dreamweaver gives you the option of adding the new repeating region to the repeating regions group that is already there, or creating a new repeating regions group to contain the new repeating region.