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jakepeyser
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3 years ago

Dynamically load iframe with embedder js

Hello,   I am adding Dropbox iframes to my web app via the Embedder. To keep the site performant, I only render the anchor tags referencing embed urls when they are visible in the viewport, at wh...
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    Greg-DB
    3 years ago

    I see, thanks for clarifying. No, I don't believe there's a way (at least not officially supported) to trigger that for newly created anchor elements like that. For dynamically creating embedded content, you should use the "Triggering the Embedder using JavaScript" method, instead of "Embedding Files or Folders using anchor tags", from the documentation. That will cause the Embedder to be loaded when you call Dropbox.embed, and you would only have to have loaded the script once, no matter how many times you call Dropbox.embed.

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