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**Category:** Beginners\
**Created:** [January 30, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/changing-the-page-html-data-on-a-child-page-solved/3736 "2020-01-30T12:45:42Z")\
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**Author:**  [@red-rosefields](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/red-rosefields)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/changing-the-page-html-data-on-a-child-page-solved/3736/1 "2020-01-30T12:45:42Z")
Hello,
So i have a 3-page website.
The index page is my master page and 2 other pages that are using index page as their master.
The problem I am facing is that on the other 2 (“child”) pages I am not able to change the page HTML data like title, description, keywords and author.
Any hint?
Many thanks in advanced
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**Author:**  [@red-rosefields](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/red-rosefields)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 1:37pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/changing-the-page-html-data-on-a-child-page-solved/3736/2 "2020-01-30T13:37:13Z")
I had to add index htm as an edible component as well.
🙂
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**Author:**  [@droidgoo](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/droidgoo)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/changing-the-page-html-data-on-a-child-page-solved/3736/3 "2020-01-30T15:01:59Z")
you can just add the attributes you want to edit, rather than the whole page…
i think making index.html editable defeats the purpose of having a master page, doesn’t it?
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**Author:**  [@red-rosefields](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/red-rosefields)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/changing-the-page-html-data-on-a-child-page-solved/3736/4 "2020-01-30T15:40:01Z")
Guess you are right. I was following the old vidio tutorial on working with master pages and they added the whole index.html as master and then created a main container so that under that container they placed the “editable content”. Doing this left me without a chance to edit the “child pages” about.html page description, title and keywords as it was been hard enherited from the index.html, so i had to go back to index page and make the html.index file editable.
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**Author:**  [@droidgoo](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/droidgoo)\
**Post date:** [January 30, 2020, 10:46pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/changing-the-page-html-data-on-a-child-page-solved/3736/5 "2020-01-30T22:46:22Z")
this is how mine looks.
the title and meta attributes are editable so i can have them different on each page, but if i were to update/change my favicon (say), then it would still propagate to all my pages.
same with stuff in the header or footer, i only make the main\_content div editable.
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**Author:**  [@red-rosefields](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/red-rosefields)\
**Post date:** [January 31, 2020, 10:00am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/changing-the-page-html-data-on-a-child-page-solved/3736/6 "2020-01-31T10:00:39Z")
> [@droidgoo](#):
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> so i can have them differe
So the key here is to make just the meta attributes editable… got it.
Thanks. I will try this.
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**Author:**  [@red-rosefields](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/red-rosefields)\
**Post date:** [February 7, 2020, 10:38pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/changing-the-page-html-data-on-a-child-page-solved/3736/7 "2020-02-07T22:38:43Z")
@droidgoo
Do you have any idea why upon applying a master page to another page its content just disappears (or deleted and what it does is just copy my index master page as is?
I just need my header and footer to be mirrored.
This is how my master page looks like.
On the other pages, I just set it to use the master page but as soon as I update, the master page replaces all of my content.
Any hint would be much appreciated.
Thanks.
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**Author:**  [@droidgoo](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/droidgoo)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 3:25pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/changing-the-page-html-data-on-a-child-page-solved/3736/8 "2020-02-08T15:25:30Z")
it looks like it should work with your “main” being editable, i would double check the actions tab to make sure the “inner content” box is checked… as so
beyond that, you may be in a form of versioning hell where some of what you are looking at is out of date… best practices is save/all early and often with all the pages OPEN in PG… here’s a thread on it below.
adding components and how they are updating can also affect things in unexpected ways.
> [@Master page update deletes editable content on child pages](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/master-page-update-deletes-editable-content-on-child-pages/3612/2):
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> Components (master pages) with “editable areas” is a description that covers too many different possibilities to be a useful topic of discussion. i’ve seen this behavior too and it took some trial and error to figure out what was wrong. in my case, i needed to use Components/Update the whole project in conjunction with File/Save All to make sure all my changes were propagating as expected. Then it was a matter of defining my EDITABLE AREAS so that i’m only allowing changes to the details i wa…
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**Author:**  [@red-rosefields](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/red-rosefields)\
**Post date:** [February 8, 2020, 10:03pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/changing-the-page-html-data-on-a-child-page-solved/3736/9 "2020-02-08T22:03:43Z")
Thanks man. I am troubleshooting.