unable to setup html master page with layout

Question

I have successfully created the master page (Sharepoint 2013) and layout page from html file but unable to add webpart zones to the body.

    <div id="maincontentcontainer">

        <div id="maincontenttop">
        </div>
        <div id="maincontentbottomleft">
        </div>
        <div id="maincontentbottomright">
        </div>
    </div>
    <div id="rightsidebarcontainer">
        <div id="rightsidebar">

        </div>
    </div>

this is the body stucture and i want to add webpart zones or content placeholders to these divs(to be able to add webparts). any help in doing this would be great thanks.

Answer 1

You can try this:

1) Open your SharePoint Designer and click on Page Layouts present in Site Object.

2) Choose the Folder in which you have create a page layouts

3) Click on create New Page Layout present in the ribbon

4) Place your HTML Between this:

<asp:Content ContentPlaceholderID="PlaceHolderMain" runat="server">
  <div id="maincontentcontainer">

        <div id="maincontenttop">
        </div>
        <div id="maincontentbottomleft">
        </div>
        <div id="maincontentbottomright">
        </div>
    </div>
    <div id="rightsidebarcontainer">
        <div id="rightsidebar">

        </div>
    </div>
</asp:Content>

5) Save it and then place your mouse cursor in between the div's you want to add

6) Then click on Insert on the ribbon, In Webparts category click on Web Part Zone

7) After that webpart zone will look like this

<div id="rightsidebarcontainer">
        <div id="rightsidebar">
<WebPartPages:WebPartZone id="g_14839A89BDA0486CABE9FA1162BAB921" runat="server" title="Zone 1"><ZoneTemplate></ZoneTemplate></WebPartPages:WebPartZone>
        </div>
    </div>

8) Save it. Then your page layout will be created Successfully.

Answer 2

For adding web part zone you need to create respective snippets and use it in the html.

You can create a snippet (webpart zone in this case) using design manager.