How to Edit Blogger Template – Editing simplified

Blogger Template is the style sheet of your blog which tell browser how to show your blog to visitor. In this post,  we are going to discuss about – “Editing a Blogger Template”

Steps go like this:

1. Go to Blog’s Dashboard.
2. Click on Template on left side
3. A screen like below will appear
4. Click on Edit HTML
5. The Blogger’s Template will open up which looks as below.
6. The main parts of a blogger template are:
   • Nav Bar
   • Header
   • Crosscol
   • Crosscol-Overflow
   • Sidebars
   • Main Blog Content
   • Footer
7. The above parts are denoted by keyword “section” which and the structure is like below:

   <b:section class='header' id='header' maxwidgets='1' showaddelement='no'/>

8. To Edit Blogger Template, first you should know – how to find some text in Blogger template HTML editor

   Checkout: How to find some text in new Blogger Template HTML Editor

9. Add any string that you want to add or delete whatever you don’t want and click on “format template” (optional) so that the coding gets formatted along text for better finding and editing
10. Click on “Preview button” to preview the changes
11. Click on “save” button.
12. “Saving” of Template will start and if your coding has no errors, then Template “saving” button will change to “save” after sometime.
13. If there’s some error then editor will show you notification along with the line number in which the error which is existing.
14. You may then go to that line number and debug the coding for successful saving of Blogger Template
15. Press Back when you have done complete template editing