Web object widget within a lightbox

Hi there,
I am creating a lightbox interaction in Captivate 7 that contains the Web object interaction widget.
When I preview it by pressing F12, the widget does not appear.
I have added all the proper advanced action scripting and everything else is working but not the widget.
Any thoughts on what might be the issue?
Thanks in advance

Try uploading to a web server and testing from there.

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