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description: Email templates that you create in Account Engagement are editable by default. If you want users to edit only parts of a template, you can define which elements are editable. When you define at least one element as editable, the default behavior changes and any element that you don’t define as editable is locked.
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# Control How Users Can Change Email Template Content

Email templates that you create in Account Engagement are editable by default. If you want users to edit only parts of a template, you can define which elements are editable. When you define at least one element as editable, the default behavior changes and any element that you don’t define as editable is locked.

### Required Editions

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Editing restrictions aren’t applied to emails created using the Send Account Engagement Email button.

1. Open the Email Templates page.
    1. In Account Engagement, select **Marketing** | **Emails** | **Templates**.
    2. In the Lightning app, select **Account Engagement Email** and then **Templates**.
2. Create or edit an email template.
3. On the Building tab, click **HTML** to edit the source code.
4. Insert an attribute for each element to define what users can do.
    - `pardot-region` lets users edit the content of an element.
    - `pardot-repeatable` lets users copy or move the element.
    - `pardot-removable` lets users remove the element
5. To combine capabilities, nest different attributes. For example, to make a section removable and editable, use both `pardot-removable` and `pardot-region`.
    
    ```html
    <td width="200">
    	<div pardot-removable="sidebar-1">
    	<div pardot-region>
    	<h1>Title</h1>
    	A paragraph of text
    		<a href="#">Read More</a>
    	</div>
    	</div>
    	</td>
    ```
    
    When combining content regions, you can only nest different attributes.
6. To make the template available to users, click **Publish to Template**.

When a user applies the template, a dropdown menu appears in the corner of each editable section with the options available for that element.

![Screenshot of an editable element in the editor with the dropdown menu shown.](https://sf-zdocs-cdn-prod.zoominsoftware.com/tdta-mktg-pardot-264-0-0-production-enus/5fef4d4f-9a34-45c6-8cd3-e3200b9eeba8/pardot/images/mcae_classic_content_regions.png)

#### See Also

- [Reuse Email Designs with Account Engagement Templates](https://help.salesforce.com/s/articleView?id=mktg.pardot_email_templates.htm&release=264.0.0&type=5 "To save time and standardize your marketing content, create email templates for the types of emails that you send most often in Account Engagement. A template is a starting point for a list email that your team can use repeatedly. Using a template also reduces the chance that you forget something important, like a piece of branding or standard contact information.")