We have a category for reports that are sent via email to staff, board members and others. We’ve set it up so these are also posted to a category called Reports. However, the only option I’m seeing is to download the file, when what I’d really like is for it to be displayed on-screen. (They’re fi…

The easy solution would be for you to use the literal text inclusion (CTRL+e) like this: This would be the content of you text file It's fixed formatted Good luck [image]

But wouldn’t the user have to manually copy and paste the contents in?

I believe so. If pdf can work for your needs there is this theme component. But says desktop only. [image] Inline PDF Previews Theme component discourse2 Summary Inline PDF Previews is a desktop-only theme component that will allow you to create previe…

This has come up several times and seems to have had the same answers. Seems like there might be a way to make a theme component that would insert the file into the DOM if you really wanted ot.

Is there a way to display an attached txt file rather than require it be downloaded?

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MikeNolan (Mike Nolan) June 8, 2024, 2:17am 2

Apparently this is controlled at the browser settings level, so never mind.

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Is there a way to display an attached txt file rather than require it be downloaded?

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