<html> and <head> placeholders

**gpholman** · 01 April 2010, 08:56 PM

Ok, well it's not doing that for me either.

**steve.ledger** · 01 April 2010, 09:08 PM

As mentioned earlier, if you group the text object that you are using as the placeholder, it does work.

**Sebastian** · 01 April 2010, 09:45 PM

Hi,

Originally Posted by sledger

As mentioned earlier, if you group the text object that you are using as the placeholder, it does work.

you must not group the text object. I think there is a little bug with the <html> function.
If you use gpholman's example, you see comment's like  in the html-placeholders with the name <html>. After export or preview all html-code is inserted in the head section. If you put a space between " which not worked with the first step .

Maybe this is fixed if you create the project with the XWD6 6.0.0. 12008. If i create a project from scratch i don't have this problem, but with gpholman's example i see the problem.

Sebastian

P.S. it's difficult to explain the problem because my english is bad

**steve.ledger** · 01 April 2010, 09:56 PM

Originally Posted by Sebastian

Hi,
you must not group the text object. I think there is a little bug with the <html> function.

No I don't think so.
Grouping the text object forces Xara to ignore it as actual text. You can just as easily make the placeholder a small rectangle. Which I personally find far more usefull (along with a text label like the tweaks to make things easy to identify on the page, but this is also grouped text with the rectangle)

I think the only reason gpholman used text on the page is because he was mistaken about the purpose of the <HTML> naming thinking it could be used in a way to output HTML code in the body area at the exact same line position as placed on the page in Web Designer.

**Sebastian** · 01 April 2010, 10:07 PM

Hi Sledger,
please try it, use gpholman's example and insert only one space after the "<!--" and you will see it is working.

**steve.ledger** · 01 April 2010, 10:20 PM

Yes I do see what you have explained (though I don't have to delete the space to see all code is at the very beginning).
My point was that this is unnecessary if a placeholder is a graphic object rather than text. Grouping his text was to allow gpholman to retain the WYSIWYG effect he may have wanted to keep

However, there is a circumstance where a text character can be used as a HTML placeholder.. But I will leave you guessing on this one until the WD6 tweaks thread is ready

**gpholman** · 02 April 2010, 09:06 AM

Sebastian - Well spotted - that was the problem all along, not having a space after the '<!--' seems to cause problems with the HTML export. I put spaces in and all works 100% now!

Sledger - I hope I'm not going to come across as a dog that just can't let go of a bone but Xara does not need to have a text object grouped for it to work as a placeholder. Please see the attached file - these are all ungroup text objects that work fine as placeholders.

Anyway I'm really looking to the forthcoming tweaks set!

All the best
Grant