Widgets from other widget sites

There are thousands of sites offering widgets of some form or another and Elements / 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 Xara it really is very simple.

Copy the code from the widget provider to your system clipboard, Ctrl+C. Sometimes the widget provider may even provide a 'copy' button which copies the code to the clipboard for you. Then in Xara Designer go into the Selector Tool and do a normal paste operation (Ctrl+V). You'll see that Xara recognizes the HTML code and immediately starts to render a placeholder image, just as it does when inserting a widget from Elements or 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.