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StanR
2 years agoExplorer | Level 3
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 ...
Greg-DB
2 years agoDropbox Staff
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:
- Load the script as instructed under "Setting up the Embedder".
- 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.
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