Solution to insert iframes in xara web designer

[kkrank]

Hello!

I am from Swedwn and new as a member on this forum. I have experience in FrontPage and Mambo previously . I have just started using Xara Web Designer 9 and discovered problems with being able to insert tables, iframes , scripts and so on. I solved the problem by adding a row of letters, such as ttttt in Xara , then after publishing the site use FrontPage editor to find the letters in the code and replace them with the code I want to use. I noted that Xara itself puts a code for the position of the letters on the page that can be changed . In this way I was able without any difficulty to place a guestbook on the page and adjust the position of the iframe. The htm file must then be published with a FTP program. The disadvantage is that the code must be re-entered at each update when using Xara. It is easy if you have saved the code to replaces the letters .

Check my guestbook: http://www.monstertruck.nu/guestbook.htm

This is the code I've used. Note the code for the position on the page generated by xara around the letters which was originally made ​​using Xara .

</ div>
<div class="Normal_text" style="position: absolute; left:255px; top:170px;">
<span class="xr_tl Normal_text" style="top: -12px;"> < iframe src = http://www.monstertruck.nu/ddgb/ddgb.php width = 715 height = 460 scrollbars = yes , resizable = no > </ iframe>
</ span>
</ div>

Regards
Kalle

[gwpriester]

Welcome to TalkGraphics Kalle

The HTML in Xara is not intended for editing. If you edit the HTML document, you will need to do this every time because Xara will overwrite the old document with new code. Xara web products are WYSIWYG layout applications.

You can use "Placeholders" to add code to your HTML document on publish (See Help > Index > Placeholder Objects). Placeholders are a powerful feature that allow you to add all kinds of scripts and code to your document without the need to edit the HTML document.

If you want to have HTML text that can be edited/replaced use the Edit > Find/Replace function.

There is an Embed a Website widget in the Designs Gallery > Page Elements and Widgets > which you can use to create an iframe.

[kkrank]

Thanks for the tips!
I tried Placeholder but did not get the iframe in the right place. I'll make new tests with the tools you suggested.
Regards
Kalle

[Acorn]

Kalle, you should be able to create a rectangle and for its placeholder body simply insert your < iframe src = http://www.monstertruck.nu/ddgb/ddgb.php width = 715 height = 460 scrollbars = yes , resizable = no > </ iframe>.

This would avoid you having to edit html after every Xara update.

Acorn

P.S. your supplied detail is buggy.
This works:
<iframe src="http://www.monstertruck.nu/ddgb/ddgb.php" width=715 height=460 scrollbars="yes" resizable="no">No IFRAME support</iframe>

[kkrank]

Thanks again!
I tried "Embed a website widget" and could place my guestbook in the right place! Is there any working Contact Forms you recommend? FormLogix cant handle Swedish letters å, ä ,ö and my IE 11 dont like FormLogix either.
Regards
Kalle

[gwpriester]

You can try Formoid http://formoid.com/ Not sure if they will help with the Swedish characters though.

[restless]

Wow... thanks a million to all of your fabulous folks on the forum. This solved all my problems - well, not all... but it solved the problems I had trying to get iframes to work correctly. The widget works great - a lot better than what I had been doing. Thanks again. Ed