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Instructions for a simple link on a webpage?
All I want to do is hyperlink from a webpage to a shared drobox folder. Is this impossible? No matter how I format the link, I get "Dropbox refuses to connect". I created an app and added that dom...
Greg-DB
Dropbox Staff
Dropbox StaffBased on your description, such as creating the app and registering the domain, it sounds like you've tried to set up the Dropbox Embedder. The Dropbox Embedder is a way of displaying content from a Dropbox shared link directly on a third party site.
You mentioned that you don't actually want to display the contents though, so you don't need to use the Embedder. You can use standard HTML functionality to link to Dropbox web pages, just like one might do with other URLs.
We can't really offer support for HTML itself, but just for example, you could make an anchor element for a hyperlink like this:
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/">Link to Dropbox</a>
You can replace https://www.dropbox.com/ with your full desired URL.
Thanks but this is exactly what I did. When I click on it, I only get the message "Dropbox refuses to connect". What must I do to the shared folder link to make it clickable from the webpage? Pasting the link into the browser works. Clicking the link from the webpage does not. I feel stupid that I can't get a hyperlink to work! There must be some parameter that I need in the URL?
- Greg-DB
Msadr Здравко is correct; you do not need to add anything to make a standard hyperlink work. From your description though, it sounds like you may still be using some Embedder or iframe functionality. Make sure you only have the standard anchor element if that's the only thing you want. Otherwise, feel free to show what you have that isn't working as expected.
Thanks, that gave me a hint. The website I'm working with defaults the link target to the frame. All I had to do was add target = "_blank" and the hyperlink works now.
Hey could one of you share a sample complete link using the solution Msadr came up with? I am trying to do the same things at my website. It is on a password accessible page and I want to provide a link to the drop box file that has photos of the project. I too created a link to the dropbox file and added it to my website (using the standard method suggested by Gre_DB above). But instead of linking to the dropbox file of images, I am getting a 404 Not Found. Thanks!
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