Web part container settings in widgets

First of all, the Editable text web part is not supported as a widget. It's already editable on the Page tab and if you need to add a text widget you can use Rich text that is also editable on the Page tab.

You can also recreate a system property as standard property if you maintain the code name so please take a look at Properties tab as well.

Widgets inherit all the same properties and functionality as a webpart. If you want to see those hidden properties or set them manually you need to go to the Editable text widget and set the visibility of them in the Properties or System Properties tab.

Thank you Brenden and Jan for the quick response. Brenden, as you noted, I should be able to show or hide the underlying web part properties in the widget by setting the visibility of each one. In my case the container and container title properties always show for widgets, regardless of how I adjust the visibility of corresponding web part properties in the widget properties (see screenshot links in initial post). This is the part that is baffling me. Also, I'm not seeing a property definition with a label called "Widget container" in the widget Properties or the System Properties tabs. That also seems strange to me and just adds to my confusion. Where does the system get that text string for the UI?

Jan, you bring up a good question about why the Editable text web part is being exposed as a widget in the first place. Maybe it was never intended to be used in that way, and that's why I'm seeing this behavior. For this particular site that I'm working on, it may be too late to "unwidgetize" it. There is a lot of content built with it. Modifications were made to the site I am working on to give Editors more abilities to build layouts in the Page tab than normal. For example, the "web part zone" web part has been exposed as a widget to give Editors the ability to nest containers and influence the layout, without having access to the Design tab. I'm starting to think that exposing basic layout control to Editors in the Page tab was a mistake. What do you guys think?

That was it, Jan. Creating a new field under the Properties tab for the widget with the same field name allowed me to get control over its visibility. This clears things up for me. Thanks to both of you.