Recommended way to embed PDF in HTML?

Question

What is the recommended way to embed PDF in HTML?

• iFrame?
• Object?
• Embed?

What does Adobe say itself about it?

In my

Answer 1

1. Create a container to hold your PDF

   <div id="example1"></div>
   

2. Tell PDFObject which PDF to embed, and where to embed it

   <script src="/js/pdfobject.js"></script>
   <script>PDFObject.embed("/pdf/sample-3pp.pdf", "#example1");</script>
   

3. You can optionally use CSS to specify visual styling, including dimensions, border, margins, etc.

   <style>
   .pdfobject-container { height: 500px;}
   .pdfobject { border: 1px solid #666; }
   </style>
   

source : https://pdfobject.com/

Answer 2

just use iFrame for PDF's.

I had specific needs in my React.js app, tried millions of solutions but ended up with an iFrame :) Good luck!

Answer 3

1. Construct a blob of the input PDF bytes
2. Use an iframe and PDF.js patched with this cross browser workaround

The URI for the iframe should look something like this:

/viewer.html?file=blob:19B579EA-5217-41C6-96E4-5D8DF5A5C70B

Now FF, Chrome, IE 11, and Edge all display the PDF in a viewer in the iframe passed via standard blob URI in the URL.

Answer 4

Using both <object> and <embed> will give you a wider breadth of browser compatibility.

<object data="http://yoursite.com/the.pdf" type="application/pdf" width="750px" height="750px">
    <embed src="http://yoursite.com/the.pdf" type="application/pdf">
        <p>This browser does not support PDFs. Please download the PDF to view it: <a href="http://yoursite.com/the.pdf">Download PDF</a>.</p>
    </embed>
</object>

Answer 5

<object width="400" height="400" data="helloworld.pdf"></object>

Answer 6

Probably the best approach is to use the PDF.JS library. It's a pure HTML5/JavaScript renderer for PDF documents without any third-party plugins.

Online demo: http://mozilla.github.com/pdf.js/web/viewer.html

GitHub: https://github.com/mozilla/pdf.js