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Possible to use block data in custom HTML?

Hi,

Is it possible to use custom html in block data?

I've got several numbers from different sources that are best rendered in a small text block (sort of like a status box). So I thought I could write a few lines of html and then have the output from my mashup go into it... Possible?

Lets pretend I can get that working. The other thing that would be neat is to have the text rendered on one of these cool looking gradient backgrounds so it sort-of pops off the web page. Is that possible?

Many thanks!

Cheers,

Gordon.

[568 byte] By [GordonWatts] at [2008-1-5]
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Yes, you can use custom html - try ripping one of the display blocks to see how they use document.write to spit out custom html.

I'm not sure what exactly you mean by 'pop-off the webpage' but if you know how to generate the html and images for the gradient, you should be able to write a block which uses it for display
SriramKrishnanMSFT at 2007-10-3 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly General Discussion...
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Thanks! It also just occured to me that I can write a small custom display block as well. Duh! That might be easier to code into a mashup even if it isn't all that useful as a block to share... though perhaps I can do something a little more general...

Cheers,

Gordon.

GordonWatts at 2007-10-3 > top of Msdn Tech,Popfly,Popfly General Discussion...
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