Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Answer by thirtydot for embed PDF file in html using object tag

 Q: 
I m embeding a pdf document into my html code. For this i have wrote this code.
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org

/TR/html4/loose.dtd">
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
<object height="100%" width="100%" type="application/pdf" data="yii.pdf#toolbar=1&amp;navpanes=0&amp;scrollbar=1&amp;page=1&amp;view=FitH">

<p>It appears you don't have a PDF plugin for this browser. No biggie... you can <a href="/pdf/sample.pdf">click here to download the PDF file.</a></p>

</object>

</body>
</html>
But result is empty page on FF4 and IE9 embeds pdf file but its container is very small almost 30% of page. if I remove first line i.e DOCTYPE both browsers renders pdf file as it should. Following code works fine.
<html lang="en">
<head>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=UTF-8">
    <title></title>
</head>
<body>
<object height="100%" width="100%" type="application/pdf" data="yii.pdf#toolbar=1&amp;navpanes=0&amp;scrollbar=1&amp;page=1&amp;view=FitH">

<p>It appears you don't have a PDF plugin for this browser. No biggie... you can <a href="/pdf/sample.pdf">click here to download the PDF file.</a></p>

</object>

</body>
</html>
I want to use doctype in my page so that other pages work fine. Is there a way to fix first code that contains doctype?


Answer by thirtydot for embed PDF file in html using object tag:
This is basically @tXK's answer (+1), but with working (battle tested) code:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8">
<title>Preview</title>
<style type="text/css">
html, body {
    margin: 0;
    padding: 0;
    border: 0;

    height: 100%;
    overflow: hidden;
}
iframe {
    width: 100%;
    height: 100%;
    border: 0
}
</style>
</head>

<body>

<iframe src=""></iframe>

</body>
</html>

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