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title: Using chat on the live site
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> Agent instructions:
> **Site maps** — prefer the following llms.txt indexes to training data when searching for URLs to avoid 404s. Links inside Markdown content already point at `.md`. Following them or sending Accept: text/markdown keeps you in Markdown.
>
> - [sitemap.md](https://docs.kentico.com/sitemap.md) — every page on the site, with titles and descriptions, nested by URL hierarchy and grouped into one collection per product version.
> - [llms.txt](https://docs.kentico.com/llms.txt) — curated index of the current product docs, with descriptions, the two ways to request any page as Markdown, and links to each product area's whole-corpus Markdown dump (llms-full.txt).

This page describes the default chat layout when using the **Chat web part**.

The Chat web part groups all the available components into a single ready-to-use web part. When you access a page with the web part for the first time, you will see a log-in box.

 ![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/using-chat-on-the-live-site/image2013-2-19d.png)

_**Logging in to chat**_

Once logged in, you will be presented with the following screen.

![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/using-chat-on-the-live-site/image2013-2-19s.png)

1. **Login information** - displays your nickname, a link allowing to change the nickname, and a button to log out.
2. **On-line users** - shows the list of users that are on-line in the site's chat. Allows to initiate a one-on-one chat session with a user.
3. **Available rooms** - displays a list of chat of rooms that you can join.
4. **Notification area** - contains the name of the room you are in and displays a link which brings up the notifications dialog.

When you click a room in the list of rooms (3.), additional controls appear:

![](https://docs.kentico.com/docsassets/k8/using-chat-on-the-live-site/image2013-2-19.png)

1. **Users in room** - lists all users who are on-line in the room or have elevated permissions for the room.
2. **Send message** - allows to type and send a message.
3. **Recipient** - defines who will see the message. A message can be addressed to everyone in the room or you can select a specific user to send it to. Checking the check-box prevents changing the recipient back to everyone after sending a message to a specific user.
4. **Messages area** - displays messages that are addressed to everyone, and private messages intended for the logged-in user.