OpenCms 7 documentation :: Documentation for the 'cms:editable' tag

Name	Description	Required
provider	This value specifies the fully qualified name of a class implementing the OpenCms interface for direct edit providers. This class is used to generate the direct edit HTML fragments (i.e. the "direct edit button"). Currently available classes: org.opencms.workplace.editors.directedit.CmsDirectEditTextButtonProvider org.opencms.workplace.editors.directedit.CmsDirectEditDefaultProvider	no
file	This value specifies a file containing the fragments inserted at the position of the editable tag. If not specified, the system default fragments are used.	no
mode	This value specifies the mode for inserting the direct edit buttons/links: auto / true (default): Enables the generation of a direct edit button/link in the page and inserts the fragments at the position of the tag manual: Inserts the direct edit button at the position of the tag false: Disables the generation of a direct edit button/link in the page	no

Body:

This tag has no body content!

Example usage:

Enables the direct edit feature and includes the body element from a file which will be editable directly:

<cms:editable />
...

<cms:include file="demo_01.html" element="body" editable="true" />

Enables the direct edit feature with textual links and shows a list of xml contents with the direkt edit link placed manually:

<cms:editable provider="org.opencms.workplace.editors.directedit.CmsDirectEditTextButtonProvider"/>
...

<cms:contentload collector="..." ... editable="manual">
	...
	Edit this: <cms:editable mode="manual"/>
</cms:contentload>

For further examples, look into examples_directedit.

The <cms:editable> tag

The `<cms:editable>` tag