How to embed a Google Form?

I’ve been trying without success to embed a Google Form. The embed code provided by Google Forms is an iframe. Is this compatible with Discourse?

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It is - you’ll have to allow the https://docs.google.com as the source domain prefix in allowed iframes.

Search for iframe in your Discourse settings.

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Works great. Thanks.

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Good to know. What are the risks connected to whitelisting https://docs.google.com for iframes? It’s a pretty huge and diverse domain…

I don’t know. Perhaps someone from the Discourse team can answer how iframes are walled off from the application.

Whitelisting could be narrowed down to the specific form, though. For example, this will work as an allowed iframe source:

https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfshJKrg_toMlnQtiUeBILwdiCTQhs54z7xHgzbRVuiQyJ6I/viewform

The full source from Google for the example above would be:

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSfshJKrg_toMlnQtiUeBILwdiCTQhs54z7xHgzbRVuiQyJ6I/viewform?embedded=true" width="760" height="500" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0">Loading...</iframe>

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I have enabled this, but it’s still not getting embeded

Did you wrap it in iframe tags?

yess, I did.
You’re talking about allowed iframes right?

Hi AryaM :slight_smile:

Here’s a detailed step-by-step to ensure you configured things right.

In your Discourse settings:

  1. Add https://docs.google.com in your allowed iframes settings:

From Google Forms:

  1. Click Send:
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  2. Click the < > (iframe) button:
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    And copy the iframe code.

In Discourse:

  1. Paste the iframe code in a post:
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