Copy Element

You may wish to copy an existing element to another location on a page, or to another page or template. To do so, in Author mode, click on the Element Tool

icon for the element you wish to copy and select Copy from the dropdown menu.s

By selecting Copy, you will be copying the element, including all of its layout properties, as well as the content of the element. You can paste the element on the current page, or on another page or template. (To paste the element on another page, you will need to get out of author mode for the page you are copying the element from, navigate to the page on which you wish to paste the element, and get into author mode for that page.) To paste the element, click on the ghosted text ‘Click to insert new element’. The element that you copied now displays in the Element Gallery dialog above the list of available element categories as Copied Element, as shown:

Related Links

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