Patent ID: 8719703

Claim:
A group-editable web page editing system, comprising: a set of user interfaces to query a user as to items to be suppressed for editing formatting characteristics of a web page comprising a control panel that lists names of all templates currently in use on the web page and for each template displaying a number of items associated with that template; an element selection device adapted to parse the web page, to receive a selection of suppressed items from the user, and to replace each of the suppressed items with a placeholder identification in a temporary web page; an editing hardware device adapted to identify items not suppressed in the web page, wherein each non-suppressed item is associated with an edit area in a further temporary web page, and to receive edits from the user in one or more of the edit areas in the further temporary web page; a format edit device to receive a selection of one of the templates in the control panel from the user, to provide a further web page to the user comprising a dialog box for editing the selected template, and to receive edits to the selected template; and a template edit merging device that merges the edits of the temporary web page, the further temporary web page, and the further web page into the web page.