Description: To make your favorite webpage into a Dashboard widget, click the “Open in Safari” button.
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# Creating a Web Clip widget

You can make your favorite webpage into a Web Clip widget. When you click a Web Clip widget in the dashboard, the webpage you used to create it opens.

Note: Web Clip widgets are available only if you have Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard. For information on upgrading to Leopard, go to the Mac OS X website.

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## To create a widget:

Open Safari and go to the webpage you want to make into a widget.

Click the “Open this page in Dashboard” button, shown here.

Move the mouse around to select a portion of the webpage. When the portion you want is highlighted, click the mouse button.

If you like, reposition the highlighted portion by dragging it. To resize it, drag the circular handles on the edges of the box.

When you’re done adjusting the outline, click Add.

Dashboard appears, with the web clip displayed.

To customize, move the mouse pointer over the widget’s lower-right corner. When you see an “i” button, click it, and then use these customizing options:

Edges: Choose an edge style by clicking the small pictures of the widget.

Only play audio in Dashboard: If your widget is a sound clip, select this checkbox if you want the sound to stop playing when you dismiss Dashboard.

Edit: To resize the widget or reposition the content, click Edit. Drag the content around to reposition it, and drag the Web Clip’s lower-right corner to resize.

A Web Clip widget remains in your Dashboard until you remove it. If you remove a Web Clip widget, the only way to get it back is to create it again.

You can create as many Web Clip widgets as you want.

### Related Topics

About Dashboard and widgets