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is it possible to create a visual studio web template without using master page and .aspx pages like dreamweaver template?

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Short answer for : Visual Studio does not provide Dreamweaver-style, design‑time HTML templates with locked editable regions for plain .html pages. In the ASP.NET world the closest, supported approaches are server-side templates that apply a single layout to many pages at runtime — Master Pages for Web Forms or a Layout plus partial/section rendering for MVC/Razor. See Microsoft's guidance on Master Pages and on Razor layouts for details.

If you need to avoid .master/.aspx specifically, practical alternatives are:

  • Use Razor layouts/partial views if you can use ASP.NET MVC/Core (server-side layout with @RenderBody/@RenderSection).
  • Break repeated pieces into reusable components (user controls or partials) and include them where needed.
  • Prebuild static pages with a generator (Jekyll, Eleventy, etc.) or scaffold pages with Visual Studio project/item templates to keep a single source of truth for header/footer.

A minimal Razor layout example (MVC/Core) looks like:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8" />
<title>@ViewBag.Title</title>
</head>
<body>
<header>Site header</header>
@RenderBody()
<footer>Site footer</footer>
</body>
</html>

Recommendation: If the site is an ASP.NET Web Forms project, use Master Pages; if using MVC/Core, use a Razor _Layout. For purely static HTML with Dreamweaver-style editing, use a static-site workflow or continue with Dreamweaver for that specific authoring model. Microsoft docs: and .

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