Now Playing Panel

what is the now playing panel? the now playing panel automatically populates with all shows and their showtimes that are screening today, with a datebar across the top that enables visitors to select a future date a message will inform visitors when there are no showtimes playing on a given day, with a link to the next day with scheduled screenings if future screenings are scheduled hovering over a show will display the excerpt of the show, along with options to watch trailer and see details film series pills will display over the bottom right corner of the image for a show if it has a showtime that day which is associated with the film series, and the pill will link to the film series page the sizing of the show thumbnails will adapt to the number of shows playing on a given day to ensure they are always occupying the full width of the page, with a maximum of three movies displaying across one row it is important that the movie still images chosen for each show do not contain text or too much busyness in the image, so that the title overlay can be easily read panel settings this panel automatically populates with the screening information entered into the scheduler, so all settings for this panel are style oriented, as detailed below please refer to the color section of our create accessible content docid\ gelpivpvsyfonz215vbwf article, to ensure colors you use in your website meet minimum contrast ratio requirements between the background color and text on top of the background the minimum contrast ratio for the wcag 2 1 aa is 4 5 1 you can check the contrast ratio between two colors using the contrast checker tool , or read more about color contrast at the webaim website make the shows contained option when the "make the shows contained" checkbox is checked, a margin will appear around the show thumbnails we recommend unchecking it for cinemas typically screening 1 2 shows a day, so your images can fill the width of your page if screening more than 2 shows a day, we recommend checking it, since it can help distinguish multiple shows