Create a Template - Visualforce

Templates are Visualforce pages containing special tags that designate placeholder text insertion positions. In this lesson you create a simple template page that uses the<apex:insert> component to specify the position of placeholder text.

1. Create a new Visualforce page called BasicTemplate.
2. Use the following as the body of the page:

   <apex:page>
       <apex:stylesheet value="http://developer.force.com/workbooks/vfdemo.css"/>
       <h1>My Fancy Site</h1>
       <apex:insert name="body"/>
   </apex:page>

The key here is the <apex:insert> component. You won’t visit this page (unless developing it) directly. Rather, create another Visualforce page that embeds this template, inserting different values for each of the <apex:insert> components. Note that each such component is named. In the above template, you have a single insert position named body. You can have dozens of such positions.