The Etherpad jQuery Plugin easily allows you to embed and access a pad from Etherpad in a web page. The plugin injects the pad contents into a div using iframes. It can also read the contents of a Pad and write it to a div.

Include jQuery.js, include etherpad.js, assign a pad to a div. If you get confused look at the examples in index.html

$('#examplePadBasic').pad({'padId':'test'});

$('#examplePadBasic').pad({'padId':'test','showChat':'true'});

$('#examplePadBasic').pad({'getContents':'exampleGetContents'});

'host'             : 'http://beta.etherpad.org', // the host and port of the Etherpad instance, by default the foundation will host your pads for you
'baseUrl'          : '/p/', // The base URL of the pads
'showControls'     : false, // If you want to show controls IE bold, italic, etc.
'showChat'         : false, // If you want to show the chat button or not
'showLineNumbers'  : false, // If you want to show the line numbers or not
'username'         : 'unnamed', // The username you want to pass to the pad
'useMonospaceFont' : false, // Use monospaced fonts
'noColors'         : false, // Disable background colors on author text
'userColor'        : false, // The background color of this authors text in hex format IE #000
'hideQRCode'       : false, // Hide QR code
'alwaysShowChat'   : false, // Always show the chat on the UI
'width'            : 100, // The width of the embedded IFrame
'height'           : 100,  // The height of the embedded IFrame
'border'           : 0,    // The width of the border (make sure to append px to a numerical value)
'borderStyle'      : 'solid' // The CSS style of the border	[none, dotted, dashed, solid, double, groove, ridge, inset, outset]

jQuery Etherpad plugin written by John McLear (c) Primary Technology 2011
Development funded by the Etherpad Foundation. Feel free to re-use, distribute, butcher, edit and whatever else you want. It's under the Apache licence.