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Placeholder objects
The placeholder object is actually included in your website and it can be shown to the
visitor in some circumstances. For example if you’ve added a Flash animation, if the
visitors to your page do not have Flash installed in their web browser, or if they’ve
disabled Flash, the browser will show the placeholder image instead.

Therefore it’s sometimes a good idea to make your placeholder object more than just a
black rectangle, or an accurate image of the widget that appears on your page. You may
decide to use a group as your placeholder object, where the group includes a text
message asking the visitor to install Flash so that they can see your Flash content.

REGENERATE PLACEHOLDER IMAGE AUTOMATICALLY: If this option at the bottom of the
PLACEHOLDER TAB is selected, then the placeholder image gets automatically generated
from the content you have added, whenever the content changes or when you resize the
placeholder object.

When you paste code or import files directly onto your page, as recommended above,
this option is selected automatically for the placeholder image that gets generated.
Sometimes it’s useful to turn it off after inserting content this way, if you are happy with
the preview image and no longer want it to be re-generated if you change the content in
some way.