Is there an easy way (e.g. via CSS) to change the way links to user-uploaded pdf files are shown? Apparently, pdf oneboxing is supported but I’m not sure under what conditions this is supposed to work. Anyway, I don’t intend to re-open the discussion about pdf-oneboxing but am rather looking for v…

As far as I know oneboxing will only work on externally linked PDFs, not uploaded ones. With CSS you could do something like a.attachment[href$=".pdf"] { color: red; &:before { // The attachment icon is added using a pseudo-selector // so you'd need to edit its styles here …

[image] awesomerobot: This applies styles to links with the class attachment only if the href ends in .pdf And this excludes one-boxed pdf-links, right? In other words: the CSS code affects only local pdfs?

And now there is a theme component that helps too @tophee :wink: [image] Inline PDF Previews Theme component discourse2 Summary Inline PDF Previews is a desktop-only theme component that will allow you to create previews for pdf attachments. eyeglasses …

Format rendering of links to (local) pdf files?

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awesomerobot (Kris) December 13, 2019, 3:17pm 4

Correct, the oneboxes don’t have the attachment class, so it shouldn’t impact those.

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Format rendering of links to (local) pdf files?

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