You cannot perform this action in this region of thepage.

[kljkljlkjlkjlkjklj]

:o I am trying to create a text link and I get the message You cannot perform
this action in this region of the page. other text has links and I can change
them using the link properities box. What am I doing wrong.

[Nancy Gill]

You're probably trying to edit a link in a template area of a page. If the
template was built by someone else for you with Dreamweaver, contact them.


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"kljkljlkjlkjlkjklj" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:d2n36b$a38$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> :o I am trying to create a text link and I get the message You cannot

perform

> this action in this region of the page. other text has links and I can

change

> them using the link properities box. What am I doing wrong.
>

[kljkljlkjlkjlkjklj]

Yes, I am using a template. However, I can enlarge the table and drop an image in the expanded table and create a link for the image.

[dhchung]

i had the same problem in editable HTML areas of PHP pages. never got an answer here on the forums.

[Joeyb]

I ran into that error message trying to add a hyperlink, and after a couple
hours of troubleshooting I figured out that it was being caused by my css
stylesheet. I had a relative positioned div element nested inside an absolute
positioned div element. I made some simple changes to the nested div
attributes so that it didn't need to be positioned (using margins and padding,
etc) and viola -- it works. Maybe Contribute 2.0 has problems with relative
positioning or maybe it just has a problem when both absolute and relative are
used together? Whatever, it works. Maybe this will help someone.

[seshelby]

I had the problem with links on a page and it turned out to be related to a
syntax error on the html code. Here is a sample of the code that caused the
problem:

<a href="page.html#anchor1#anchor2">Link Text</a>

Notice the extra anchor in the code. Once I removed it under Dreamweaver, I
was able to edit the link under contribute.

[pamelina82]

I ran across a similar problem in Contribute 3.1 when trying to create a link
to an anchored part of the page: [url]http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm#cius[/url]. For some
reason, the anchor tag part of the URL was duplicated, and the link turned out
as [url]http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm#cius#cius[/url]. Then I could not edit the link
text. I tried to edit and delete, but kept getting the message "You cannot
perform this action in this region of the page."

What I wound up doing was pasting the URL in as
"http://www.fbi.gov/ucr/ucr.htm" and then choosing "cius" from the Section
Anchor pulldown in the Link dialog box. The link was what is should be and I
was able to edit the link text.

[tj@cde]

I ran across the same problem in Contribute 3.1 when trying to create a link to
a named anchor. It appears that if you paste a URL that includes an anchor
(i.e. [url]http://www.domain.com/index.asp#example[/url]) in the text box below "Web
address (URL)" (or "Browse" to a URL with an anchor) and click the "OK" button
Contribute creates the link with a duplicate anchor name (i.e.
[url]http://www.domain.com/index.asp#example#example[/url]). Then you are unable to select
or edit the link. :( Is this a bug?

However, if you paste a URL, that includes an anchor, into the text box next
to "HREF" and click "OK" it creates the link with the anchor correctly and you
are able to edit the link.:)

[tj@cde]

Work Around:

While setting a link, "Browse" to or paste in a URL in the text box next to
"Web address (URL)". Then type the "#anchorname" (or choose from the drop down
list) at the end of the URL in the text box next to "HREF" and click "OK" it
creates the link with the anchor correctly and you are able to edit the link.
NOTE: Do not type the "#anchorname" directly next to the URL located in the
text box below "Web address (URL)".