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Widgets from other widget sites
There are hundreds or thousands of sites offering widgets of some form or another and the Designs
Gallery
offers only a tiny subset of what is available on the web. Just about all widgets are provided to you in the
form of a small piece of HTML code. The widget provider will normally give you some simple
instructions on how to insert the code into your web page, but with Web Designer MX Premium it really
is very simple.
Copy the code from the widget provider to your system clipboard, just as you copy text in a word
processor. Sometimes the widget provider may even provide a 'copy' button which copies the code for
you.
Then in Web Designer MX Premium go into the Selector Tool and then do a normal paste operation
(Ctrl+V). You'll see that Web Designer MX Premium recognizes the HTML code and immediately starts
to render a placeholder image, just as it does when inserting a widget from the Designs Gallery
. The placeholder appears on your page, usually with the most appropriate size for the widget. You can
then preview your page to see your working widget!
You can also paste widget code into both the head and body of your page using the Placeholder tab
of the Web Properties dialog.
NOTE: If you are in the Text Tool when you paste the code, it will be pasted as text instead of
producing a placeholder! And once you've pasted the contents of the clipboard as text once, it will
continue to paste as text even if you switch to the Selector Tool and paste again. If you get into this
position, return to the widget website and copy the code again. Then do the paste while in the Selector
Tool
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