The rendered page

What a reader of the output can do with it. Nothing here needs the spec that produced it.

The controls below the structure

The page has its own controls beneath the structure, under the viewport that holds Mol*'s.

View appears when the spec lists more than one view, and switches which is on screen. Every view is drawn when the page loads, so switching changes only what is visible: a site you framed stays framed, and each view brings its own caption with it. The exception is a view with its own orientation, which deliberately moves the camera.

Labels shows and hides the labels drawn on the structure. It appears only when at least one was actually drawn: a row asking for a label on a residue the view does not display leaves nothing to toggle, and is reported as a warning instead. Mouseover tooltips are separate and keep working while the labels are hidden.

Reset view reloads the page as generated, putting the original coloring and the current view's camera back. It is there because a representation you add from Mol*'s Components panel arrives in Mol*'s own element coloring and cannot be colored from the UI — see How it works.

Linking to a view

The address bar tracks whichever view is on screen, so sharing one is copying the URL:

https://example.org/hemagglutinin.html#view=perth-2009-to-subclade-k

The name after #view= is the view's name from the spec, lowercased with everything that is not a letter or digit turned into a hyphen. A name the page does not have is ignored and it opens on the first view, so an old link never lands on an error.

Size, shading, and Mol*'s own panels

Three spec keys decide what the page looks like when it opens: viewer_height sets how tall the viewer box is — the width always fills the page — molstar_ui whether Mol*'s own panels start open or closed, and style whether the structure is shaded the way Mol* shades it by default or with Mol*'s illustrative look. Closed is not gone: the wrench in the viewport opens them either way, which is what makes a page a figure first and a tool second.

Mol*'s own Quick Styles panel sets the same shading, so a reader with the panels open can click Default there to see the structure the other way. Reset view puts the spec's style back, along with everything else.

Saving an image

The page has no export button of its own: Mol*'s is better. The camera icon in the viewport opens a panel with a Download button and, above it, the settings that decide what gets downloaded — resolution, transparent background, whether the orientation axes are drawn, and the file format.

A large export is genuinely sharper rather than a blow-up of the viewport: Mol* re-renders it offscreen with quality settings the live view cannot afford, so expect a few seconds and a frozen view at the larger sizes. How it works has the details, including why there is no ray tracing to turn on.