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536 Web Graphics and Websites

Placeholder with default size Placeholder made narrower and shorter

Turning off placeholder re-generation
The placeholder image will be regenerated whenever you resize it or change the code or
file it’s attached to. Sometimes you may want to turn off that regeneration so that the
placeholder image won’t change again. You can do this by deselecting the checkbox at
the bottom of the PLACEHOLDER TAB in the "UTILITIES" > "WEB PROPERTIES DIALOG".
Adding widget placeholders manually

If you don’t want Xara Designer Pro X to create a placeholder image automatically, you
can set one up yourself. First create a placeholder object (perhaps a rectangle of the
appropriate size or an imported image that you want to use to represent the widget on
your page). Select the object and then open the Placeholder tab in the "UTILITIES" > "WEB
PROPERTIES".

Or press the placeholder button on the Web properties flyout bar on the top bar.

In this dialog you can choose to associate the selected object with a Flash file or other
file, or with HTML code that the dialog allows you to paste into the head or body of the
web page. See the PLACEHOLDER TAB section of the Web Properties Dialog (on page
484) chapter for details on this dialog.

Normally you don’t want to select the "Re-generate placeholder" option if you want to
keep the placeholder object you’ve created yourself. Selecting the option will cause your
placeholder to be replaced with an image generated from the code or file you have
specified in this dialog.