This whould only be visible in view mode, not in edit mode.

Hi,

Have you tried to add another UIHint? Like this:

[UIHint(UiHint.NoWrappersContentArea, PresentationLayer.Website)]
[UIHint("ContentArea", PresentationLayer.Edit)]
public virtual ContentArea MainContentArea { get; set; }

Hi Mattias,

Yes I have.

Unfortunately with the same result.

I usually don't want the editors to have one experience in Edit mode and another in view mode so I try to avoid it as much as possible. I know it works on some Property types though. I guess ContentArea is not one of them if you can't get it to work. If I need a special display template I try to make sure it is supported in edit mode as well. You can add attributes to the children of the content area to make them editable. Just add data-epi-block-id="123" where the number is a ContentReference.

Thanks for the suggestion of using data-epi-block-id. That works perfectly and gives me editing capabilities again when using a display template.
However I have to add this attribute to all my blocks, which I do not prefer. But I will definitely keep this in mind for future usage.

For now I will use a quick workaround which I should have thought of immediately:

@model EPiServer.Core.ContentArea

@if (PageEditing.PageIsInEditMode)
{
    Html.RenderContentArea(Model);
}
else
{
    Html.RenderNoWrappersContentArea(Model);
}

Thanks for your support!