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D. Thaler
D. Thaler

Reputation: 111

Clicking href links to pdf pages sometimes takes you to the previous link you clicked (Edge)

We have a place where there are multiple href links that take you to different page numbers in the same PDF document, like so:

href="https://url.website.fake/files/2021-01/documents/a_pdf_file.pdf#page=39"

The tester reports that sometimes if they click on link A and then link B, where both links are like the one above but going to different page numbers, the second click will take you to the page number from the previous link.

I've been trying to reproduce but can never do it. The tester is able to reproduce fairly easily. Does this sound like anything anyone here has experienced? Tester has only been able to reproduce this in Edge. Thanks.

Upvotes: 1

Views: 263

Answers (1)

K J
K J

Reputation: 11810

All browser users are different, so too may be their PDF extension, thus in this case seems they may not have adjusted their Edge viewer use to same as yours. Other browsers have different methods but effect can be the same. You need to educate users to change their browser security.

Check the second setting. enter image description here

Most likely theirs is On and yours is Off its included in how to handle site response such as the download to view.

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Using a simple two page file attempting to swap href Sometimes (but not always) throws me a warning enter image description here

so asking for page 1, I see page 2 enter image description here

if I switch it off and refresh I will see Page 1 enter image description here

For web secure use it is best set On, however for local personal use I tend to switch it Off. Most other users would possibly prefer it On to continue at the page where they last read up to.

My MWE which shows above behavior is

<html><head></head>
<body>
<a href="http://africau.edu/images/default/sample.pdf#page=2">link A (page 2)</a><p>
<a href="http://africau.edu/images/default/sample.pdf#page=1">link B (Page 1)</a>
</body></html>
link A (page 2)

link B (Page 1)

Upvotes: 2

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