Table of Contents

• Embed parameters
  • showLineNumbers
  • showControls
  • showChat
  • useMonospaceFont
  • userName
  • userColor
  • noColors
  • alwaysShowChat
  • lang
  • rtl

Embed parameters#

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

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.

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

showLineNumbers#

Default: true

showControls#

Default: true

showChat#

Default: true

useMonospaceFont#

Default: false

userName#

Default: "unnamed"

Example: userName=Etherpad%20User

userColor#

Default: randomly chosen by pad server

Example: userColor=%23ff9900

noColors#

Default: false

alwaysShowChat#

Default: false

lang#

Default: en

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

rtl#

Default: true Displays pad text from right to left.