Oct 16, 2008

Neat lil' css trick

a[href$=".pdf"]::after {
  content: " (pdf)";
}

PDFs tend to be large and unwieldy, and they like crashing browsers. Many people like to be warned that a pdf is lurking behind some innocent link. Here’s one little trick that appends a warning to every link that ends inĀ .pdf, via CSS. Spotted here.

If your readers are using a decent browser, it’ll even work!

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