Digital Clock Widget? No longer works.

**jclements** · 12 January 2013, 05:25 PM

I have a webpage I created sometime ago used this digital clock widget. Now, when I open the webpage it no longer works.

I tried to fix it by replacing it but I can't remember the original source. I tried the Designers Gallery but I couldn't find it.

Does anyone have an answer as to WHY it no longer works or if there is another similar widget I can use OR perhaps there is a way to create something similar using a placeholder (it wouldn't have to be graphically as glitzy?

Please see attached example.

**Acorn** · 12 January 2013, 05:42 PM

Originally Posted by jclements

I tried to fix it by replacing it but I can't remember the original source. I tried the Designers Gallery but I couldn't find it.

Does anyone have an answer as to WHY it no longer works or if there is another similar widget I can use OR perhaps there is a way to create something similar using a placeholder (it wouldn't have to be graphically as glitzy?

You used code in a Placeholder for this solution already. Open the Placeholder HTML code (Body) to view where you got it from (Widgetbox). The site, however, no longer returns your widget particulars.

Try searching Google for "widget" & "clock" but try looking for one with a JavaScript solution so you are not relying on an external resource.

**jclements** · 12 January 2013, 06:03 PM

Thanks for the quick response. I am a little rusty at this.

I didn't realize it was calling an external source until I saw the "src="http://cdn.widgetserver.com/syndication/subscriber/InsertWidget.js">"

**gwpriester** · 12 January 2013, 06:27 PM

A lot of widgets have stopped working or have been retooled. For a while most of the Google widgets were not working and I think now they are again. Problems with security or privacy probably.

**jclements** · 12 January 2013, 09:25 PM

I found some examples by Googleing "java script for a digital clock".

I altered some of the original code used in the Placeholder for Example 3 of the attached Xara file; however, I am not sure why the extra cell appears to the right of the clock (do a Preview Whole Website in Xara).
Any ideas?

**Egg Bramhill** · 12 January 2013, 10:00 PM

Hi John,

Please see attached xar. I've split the head and body sections into the head and body of the page. I noticed you had the body section duplicated in your version, hence the second box.