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Resizing widgets
You can resize the placeholder images for Flash, MP4 movies and animated GIFs to similarly resize the
content as it appears on your page, because this type of content is scalable. Most of the Locally Editable
Widgets are also resizable, but some are not and won't allow you to drag the resize handles of the
placeholder image.
Some Web Editable Widgets will allow you to resize them even though the widget content won't scale.
For these widgets the placeholder object merely determines the bounds of the area in which the widget
can render, so making the placeholder too small for the widget will mean that the widget gets cropped in
your web page. The placeholder image gets regenerated whenever you resize it, so it will reflect any
cropping of the widget too, as shown in this example.
Placeholder with default size
Placeholder with reduced size
This is an example of the PayPal e-commerce 'Buy Now' button which enables you to sell goods or
services from your website. This Widget is one available from the Designs Gallery
.
Similarly making the placeholder larger for such widgets will merely result in empty space around the
widget, on the page and in the placeholder image. For widgets like these which don't resize correctly
when you resize the placeholder, it's best to stick with the original default size.
There are some widgets which can be improved by resizing the placeholder, even if the widget itself
doesn't scale. Some widgets will fill the container into which they are inserted, which may mean they
come out much bigger than required, with blank areas filling the space. You can experiment by resizing
the placeholder for such widgets in each direction and this may make the widget smaller without losing
the key parts of the widget.
For example this Form widget has rendered much too wide and tall and so there is wasted space below
and to the right of the form controls. Resizing it down doesn't change the size of the form controls, it just
results in the form being cropped. The result is a much neater form placeholder taking up much less space
on the page.
Placeholder with default size
Placeholder made narrower and
shorter
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