[TIP] How to re use a placeholder

**steve.ledger** · 08 March 2009, 02:40 AM

Using the <iframe> html tag in a placeholder it's quite straight forward to create a page that can re use a placeholder to display selectable resources.

Here I've show how to I've re used a placeholder to play a selection of embedded YouTube videos at any size.

**covoxer** · 08 March 2009, 06:32 AM

And you can use placeholders with <iframe> on the popup layers.

Just a hint, but think about it.

**steve.ledger** · 08 March 2009, 06:00 PM

Yes that would allow the video window to only appear when a movie is selected.

**Boy** · 13 March 2009, 10:02 AM

When I do a preview of your reusing single placeholder.web document, I get two error messages: line 2, char 1 is Invalid character; line 1, char 1 Object expected. The videos don't play.

**steve.ledger** · 13 March 2009, 10:31 AM

Can you post a screen shot?

No problems here on Vista Ultimate, Windows 7 beta or XP..

**Boy** · 13 March 2009, 11:07 AM

Originally Posted by sledger

Can you post a screen shot?

I'm using XP Home SP3, fully updated.

**nickydude** · 13 March 2009, 11:28 AM

Wish I noticed this before I asked the question.

**nickydude** · 13 March 2009, 11:45 AM

Funny, when previewing from within WD I receive an error (see image) but exporting it as html and previewing it through a browser doesn't give the error and works correctly.

**Boy** · 13 March 2009, 12:21 PM

Originally Posted by nickydude

Funny, when previewing from within WD I receive an error (see image) but exporting it as html and previewing it through a browser doesn't give the error and works correctly.

When viewing it IE7, it doesn't work, but in FF3 it does work. Funny stuff, web browsers...

**steve.ledger** · 13 March 2009, 05:28 PM

Try running WUD (Windows updates) and rebooting your PC.

I have no such error message showing here in the WD preview, nor even with IE8 rc1.
Plays fine.