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A.L's avatar
A.L
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11 years ago

Drop-in Saver

Hey guys, I'm struggling to implement a single drop-in saver button on a blank html document running from local host. I tried copying the dropins.js and referencing it locally but am unsure what...
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Steve M.'s avatar
Steve M.
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11 years ago

Lots of things about that code look weird. Try this instead:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
    <head>
        <meta charset="utf-8">
        <title>Saver</title>
        <script type="text/javascript" src="https://www.dropbox.com/static/api/2/dropins.js" id="dropboxjs" data-app-key="kyljf8vcbai3kc7"></script>
    </head>
    <body>
        <a href="https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/s/deroi5nwm6u7gdf/advice.png" class="dropbox-saver">Click here to save.</a>
    </body>
</html>

I changed a few things:

  1. I put the script tag in the head and closed it.
  2. I put some text inside the anchor tag so you could click the link. (I also moved the anchor tag outside of the <script> wrapper so it actually shows up.)
  3. I removed the call to createSaveButton, which referenced two undefined variables (localhost and filename) and didn't do anything with the button anyway.

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