How to change the border colour of a pop-up photo

[MarciaB]

Is it possible to change the border colour of a pop-up photo ? Or reduce its width ?

[gwpriester]

Bon Jour Marcia

I believe the pop ups that are generated from the Image tabbed section are created with HighSlide JS. They have some options on their website. I am not sure if all of these will work in Xara's version but it is worth looking at and trying out.

For example, Steve Ledger contributed a Workbook article for scrolling text and this was done by adding bits of code to the Alt text area.

[MarciaB]

Ok, thanks Gary, I'll check that out. If I'm successful I'll post the result.

[gwpriester]

Yeah, that would be great.

[zaphodeist]

This might help as well

[allwaysjudee]

neodeist, interesing link there - just a question from someone new at this -

say I set up the 3 placeholders (wanting the close button) - it says to place them on the pasteboard? That's the big background where nothing goes usually, right? So... where do I put the actual picture? I want the picture to show as a thumb on the page, and then, when clicked, pop-up without the border but with the close button, and at the original size - within limits, depending on the image.

So, do I drag the actual image onto the placeholder - one, both, all, and if so, do I then put the image onto the page I want?

Or - do I simply drag the image in question onto the page I want, ignoring the placeholders, which then somehow act as added script for the whole site?

[zaphodeist]

THey act as added script :-)

[gwpriester]

If you add a placeholder to an image, it will make the image invisible. Placeholders generally serve to add a line of code to the published HTML document. This is the best way to add bits of script.

[allwaysjudee]

Okay, thanks, that's very helpful! I was confused as to the intention of placeholders. Being unfamiliar with the terminology, i thought they were just, well, placeholders - like you'd put a rectangle on a page where you wanted to later place an image - kind of like making a layout without the images to see how it looks in terms of its form, etc - then I thought you'd just drag and drop the imaghes on to the placeholder. I did try that once, and as was mentioned above, the image disappeared, lol!

It all makes much more sense now. Thanks for the help!

[MarciaB]

Well, here's a test page. Everything ok, but I lost the page shadow... I don't know how to fix that.
http://www.marciamedia.com/test.htm