Placeholders and variants

[Deltapete]

Hi

I've been out of the loop for a while.

I have just been designing and new site for work and have 2 variants. Mostly works as I want but I can't get a placeholder to display correctly on both variants.

If I add the placeholder to variant it displays fine on that one. If I share the placeholder to the other variant it display twice on the original variant but not on the second. I have rename the div as described in another post but this did not work either.


This is script supplied from the data source:

<div id="SOCSCalendar"><!-- SOCS Diary data will appear here --></div>
<script src="https://www.socscms.com/socs/plugin/api.js"></script>
<script type="text/javascript">
var socsURL = 'https://www.socscms.com/socs/plugin/api.ashx?key=removed'
</script>

I am using version Web Designer+ 24.2.0.69846

Any ideas would be most gratefully appreciated

Peter

[Acorn]

Peter, a known problem.

HTML ids are supposed to be unique. Include a second identical one and it is not found.

You could try ensuring they are not Shared then changing the id of <div id="SOCSCalendar"> to <div id="SOCSCalendarV1"> & <div id="SOCSCalendarV2"> for your variants.
You will end up with a refreshed view of the calendar when switching. Do test that this is still doing what end viewers require.

I think it will be better to create a standalone SOCS calendar subsite and link to that.
I would make it Scale to fit width if the SOCS presentation cannot be made to be adaptive natively.

Acorn

[Deltapete]

Acorn,

Thanks for the reply.

I did another thread which described the issue as you mentioned but it did not fix the problem. When I try using a different names for the div nothing shows!

I think as you say it will be a better option to create a sub siter and link to from there.

Very useful advice thank you.
Best wishes
Peter