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Embed parameters

You can easily embed your etherpad-lite into any webpage by using iframes. You can configure the embedded pad using embed parameters.

Example:

Cut and paste the following code into any webpage to embed a pad. The parameters below will hide the chat and the line numbers and will auto-focus on Line 4.

<iframe src='http://pad.test.de/p/PAD_NAME#L4?showChat=false&showLineNumbers=false' width=600 height=400></iframe>

showLineNumbers​

  • Boolean

Default: true

showControls​

  • Boolean

Default: true

showChat​

  • Boolean

Default: true

useMonospaceFont​

  • Boolean

Default: false

userName​

  • String

Default: "unnamed"

Example: userName=Etherpad%20User

userColor​

  • String (css hex color value)

Default: randomly chosen by pad server

Example: userColor=%23ff9900

noColors​

  • Boolean

Default: false

alwaysShowChat​

  • Boolean

Default: false

lang​

  • String

Default: en

Example: lang=ar (translates the interface into Arabic)

rtl​

  • Boolean

Default: true Displays pad text from right to left.

#L​

  • Int

Default: 0 Focuses pad at specific line number and places caret at beginning of this line Special note: Is not a URL parameter but instead of a Hash value