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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
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffYou 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.
worked on chrome. not on Firefox.
The above is Firefox.
- Greg-DB
StanR Like Здравко found, it is also working for me in Firefox. What version of Firefox are you using, and are there any errors in the browser console on that page in Firefox for you when the Embedder doesn't appear?
(FYI: My Firefox wasn't showing either...but it turned out to be blocked by Privacy Badger extension.)
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