Working with widgets

A: Title bar

You can drag the widget around your page by the blue 'title bar'.

B: Widget title

To rename your widget, click the text of the widget title and start typing. With some widgets, such as news feed widgets, clicking the title text will open a new web browser displaying the web page that the news feed comes from.

C: Edit and delete buttons

Click the edit button to see options for the widget. For example, clicking the edit button on a weather widget will let you choose the city you are in. Click the delete button to delete the widget from your page.

D: Resize icon

Click and drag the resize icon to change the size of the widget


When you click the 'edit' button on a widget, you'll see options for configuring the widget:

A: Title

Change the title of the widget here

B: Widget color offset

Change the color of the widget. The colors available are variations on the color theme you are currently using (see the 'Customizing your page' chapter for more about changing your page's color theme.

C: Widget specific configurations options

The image above shows the edit screen for a bookmarks widget, that lets you enter the bookmarks that are displayed inside the bookmarks widget. If it was a weather widget, you would see options for choosing your city.

D: Click Cancel to abort without saving your changes, or click Save to save your changes and close the widget edit screen.

To move a widget to a different tab, simply drag the widget by its title bar, and hover the mouse over the tab you would like to move it to. An arrow will appear indicating that you will be dropping the widget into the hovered tab. Release the mouse to drop the widget into this tab. On the toolbar, you have an option called 'Auto-arrange'. Click the option to toggle between 'Auto-arrange on' and 'Auto-arrange off'. When auto-arrange is off, you can move widgets freely within your page, and overlap widgets as much as you like. When auto-arrange is on, widgets will not be able to overlap. They will automatically spread themselves out onto the page so that they do not overlap, and will gravitate upwards to fill free space. You can set different auto-arrange settings for different tabs within your page. You might find that if you have a lot of widgets on your page, the 'Auto-arrange on' setting helps you to tidy up your page.