Set up your embed

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Set up your embed

Display types
Assuming that you have followed the steps of installing and initializing the snippet, you can show the embed in following ways:
Inline
Show the embed inline inside a container element. It would take the width and height of the container element.
Vanilla JS
React
Popup
To show the embed as a popup on clicking an element, add data-cal-link attribute to the element.
Vanilla JS
React
Supported Instructions
Consider an instruction as a function with that name and that would be called with the given arguments.
inline
Appends embed inline as the child of the element.
<script>
Cal("inline", { elementOrSelector, calLink });
</script>
elementOrSelector - Give it either a valid CSS selector or an HTMLElement instance directly
calLink - Cal Link that you want to embed e.g. john. Just give the username. No need to give the full URL https://cal.com/john. It makes it easy to configure the calendar host once and use as many links you want with just usernames
ui
Configure UI for embed. Make it look part of your webpage.
<script>
Cal("inline", { styles });
</script>
styles - It supports styling for body and eventTypeListItem. Right now we support just background on these two.
preload
Usage:
If you want to open cal link on some action. Make it pop open instantly by preloading it.
<script>
Cal("preload", { calLink });
</script>
calLink - Cal Link that you want to embed e.g. john. Just give the username. No need to give the full URL https://cal.com/john
Actions
You can listen to an action that occurs in embedded cal link as follows. You can think of them as DOM events. We are avoiding the term "events" to not confuse it with Cal Events.
<script>
Cal("on", {
 action: "ANY_ACTION_NAME",
 callback: (e)=>{
 // `data` is properties for the event.
 // `type` is the name of the action(You can also call it type of the action.) This would be same as "ANY_ACTION_NAME" except when ANY_ACTION_NAME="*" which listens to all the events.
 // `namespace` tells you the Cal namespace for which the event is fired/
 const {data, type, namespace} = e.detail;
 }
})
</script>
Following are the list of supported actions.
Action
Description
Properties
eventTypeSelected
When user chooses an event-type from the listing.
eventType:object // Event Type that has been selected"
bookingSuccessful
When the booking is successfully done. It might not be confirmed.
confirmed: boolean; //Whether confirmation from organizer is pending or not
eventType: "Object for Event Type that has been booked";
date: string; // Date of Event
duration: number; //Duration of booked Event
organizer: object //Organizer details like name, timezone, email
linkReady
Tells that the link is ready to be shown now.
None
linkFailed
Fired if link fails to load
code: number; // Error Code
msg: string; //Human Readable msg
data: object // More details to debug the error
__iframeReady
It is fired when the embedded iframe is ready to communicate with parent snippet. This is mostly for internal use by Embed Snippet
None
__windowLoadComplete
Tells that window load for iframe is complete
None
__dimensionChanged
Tells that dimensions of the content inside the iframe changed.
iframeWidth:number, iframeHeight:number
Actions that start with __ are internal.