jasonc Posted October 1, 2009 Share Posted October 1, 2009 edited... i have just disabled a PDF viewer in FF and this now make the link open the PDF in a standard PDF viewer, acrobat I have used the following to display the PDFS in my pages in Internet Explorer it shows as it should, within the iframe but in firefox it opens the pdf in the same window but not in the iframe it just loads the pdf in the whole window like i had just opened the pdf from the direct file. why is this and how can i stop this this is my code.. <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN"> <html> <head> <title>Untitled Document</title> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1"> <style> <!-- /* taken out this part too much css code here */ --> </style> </head> <body> <div align="center"><a href="http://site.com/"><font size="6">site</font></a></div> <table width="1012" align="center" cellpadding="5" bgcolor="#CCCCCC"> <tr> <td width="180" align="center" valign="top"> <div id="leftcolumn"> <br /><br /> <div class="module_menu"> <h3>Main Menu</h3> <ul class="menu"> <li><a href="http://site.com/"><strong>Home</strong></a></li> <li><a href="?ac=pm"><strong>Previous minutes</strong></a></li> <li><a href="?ac=c"><strong>Contact us</strong></a></li> </ul> </div> <br /><br /><br /> <div class="module"> <h3><font size="2">Recent updates</font></h3> <font size="2">Agenda</font> <ul class="latestnews"> <li><a href="?a=21092009"><strong>21 Sep 2009</strong></a></li> </ul> <br> <font size="2">Minutes</font> <ul class="latestnews"> <li><a href="?m=31121969"><strong>31 Dec 1969</strong></a></li> </ul> <br><br> <h3><font size="2">Next meeting</font></h3> <ul class="latestnews"> <div align="center"> <strong>21 Sep 2009</strong> </div> </ul> </div> <br /><br /><br /> </div> </td> <td width="800" valign="top"> <p align="center"><strong><font color="#666666">Welcome to our website.</font></strong></p> <p> </p> <? include("action.php"); ?> <p> </p> <p> </p> </td> </tr> </table> </body> </html> this is my action script that show the relevant page needed.... action.php <? $articledate = stripstring($_GET['a']); $countername = "Agenda " .$articledate; $filename = "agendas/RRA - " . substr($articledate, 0, 2) . "-" . substr($articledate, 2, 2) . "-" . substr($articledate, 4, 4) . " - Agenda.pdf"; if (file_exists($_SERVER{'DOCUMENT_ROOT'} . "/" . $filename)) { // include("agendas/RRA - " . substr($articledate, 0, 2) . "-" . substr($articledate, 2, 2) . "-" . substr($articledate, 4, 4) . " - Agenda.htm"); ?><iframe src="<?=$filename;?>" height="800" width="100%" frameborder="0" scrolling="no"></iframe><? } else { $countername = "Agenda NOT VALID"; include("agendas/notvalid.php"); } ?> Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/176218-show-pdf-within-iframe-works-in-ie-not-firefox-it-opens-pdf-in-same-window/ Share on other sites More sharing options...
CarbonCopy Posted October 4, 2009 Share Posted October 4, 2009 I believe (but I may be mistaken), that that is part of the Adobe plugin that you just cannot change. Link to comment https://forums.phpfreaks.com/topic/176218-show-pdf-within-iframe-works-in-ie-not-firefox-it-opens-pdf-in-same-window/#findComment-930298 Share on other sites More sharing options...
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