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StanR's avatar
StanR
Explorer | Level 3
3 years ago

Re: Feedback: The Embedder Launched in Preview

I'm hoping you can help me.  I've been trying to reproduce your result in my own HTML without success.  I just get a blank screen.  If I look at the Source for each of your examples, it seems like a ...
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Greg-DB
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3 years ago

You can find the instructions for using the Embedder here. There are working examples on that page, but as that is a page on the actual Dropbox web site, there is other code in the source, unrelated to the Embedder itself.

 

To use the Embedder, you would need to:

  1. Load the script as instructed under "Setting up the Embedder".
  2. Configure the Embedder as shown under either "Embedding Files or Folders using anchor tags" or "Triggering the Embedder using JavaScript".

Here's a very basic/minimal example I put together showing how to set up the Embedder with an anchor tag to show a PDF file.

    • Greg-DB's avatar
      Greg-DB
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      3 years ago

      StanR What browser/version are you using? That page is working for me, showing the Embedder displaying a PDF file. Here's a screenshot of what it looks like in Chrome, for example:

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      StanR
      Explorer | Level 3
      3 years ago

      worked on chrome.  not on Firefox.

      • Здравко's avatar
        Здравко
        Legendary | Level 20
        3 years ago

        The above is Firefox.

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