How do I get a paypal button on one of my pages?

Xarzu

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So, first of all, I have a paypal account. I logged into paypal and I asked them to give me the code for a button.
The problem is that after I copied the generated code into my clip board and then pasted it into my text editor, what I got was a whole lot of nothing. It has some <div> tags and some <script> tags but there is absolutely nothing that tells me that the code there points to my account or anything.
There must be a whole lot of page data I am missing.
Is there anyone who can suggest what I should do?
When I put this into an html page, the browser just ignores everything.
It is as if it is a generic thing and not specified to me.
HTML:
<div id="paypal-button-container"></div>
<script src="https://www.paypal.com/sdk/js?client-id=sb&currency=USD" data-sdk-integration-source="button-factory"></script>
<script>
  paypal.Buttons({
      style: {
          shape: 'pill',
          color: 'gold',
          layout: 'vertical',
          label: 'pay',
          
      },
      createOrder: function(data, actions) {
          return actions.order.create({
              purchase_units: [{
                  amount: {
                      value: '1'
                  }
              }]
          });
      },
      onApprove: function(data, actions) {
          return actions.order.capture().then(function(details) {
              alert('Transaction completed by ' + details.payer.name.given_name + '!');
          });
      }
  }).render('#paypal-button-container');
</script>
 

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When I put this into an html page, the browser just ignores everything.
When I put your code into a html page, it showed a Paypal button

paypal-button.jpg
 

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Xarzu
I use textpad to make a page with just<html> and <body> tags. Do you have more than that which I must be missing? Do you have a <header> which somehow enables javascript or a <html> tag with more information in it?
 

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ok, so I noticed that I too can use these buttons as long as there is enough space on the html page to allow for a drop down. So I gave these buttons a test and I found that they linked to a sandbox URL.

The code, itself has a line where the client-id is set to "sb" which I assume means "sand box"
Code:
<script src="https://www.paypal.com/sdk/js?client-id=sb&currency=USD" data-sdk-integration-source="button-factory"></script>
So I looked around at the paypal web site, and I found I could generate a client id, which I did,
I also set it such that an online url coudl abve associated with my paypal account.
So, then I replaced the id in the html sdcript to be this client id instead of "sb""
and ftp uploaded the html page to my website to try it.
It didn't seem to work though

Any suggestions?
 
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Xarzu

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I settled on using the old school button
 
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