Hey Paul,

Hm, wouldn't it make sense to just display an iframe with the content in the blog post better? We don't have a block currently that allows you to do this but we do have an iframe block in EasyBlog that allows you to embed an iframe though.

Mark, let me give you an example: You have an academic article with some instructions or other points of reference. These can be like footnotes or explanations of process. As you are reading the article you as the reader need clarity on a point but maybe another reader has no need at all for the clarity on that point. So loading up all of those external references in their own blocks would just make the article unreadable for everyone except the person who absolutely had to read every single reference point (most would not).

However, letting the reader load up any one reference point at their own need and discretion in a single fixed, frame that doesn't interfere with the flow of the article or force the reader to click to a new page or a new tab in the middle of reading, makes it useful especially if it in a separate frame that doesn't interrupt the flow of reading the article and they don't have to be clicking to different pages and then going back to find their place in the article. Obviously this can be accomplished using the Joomla menu system using the wrapper but this would be tedious beyond usefulness and for many users who might be authors, they would need to be trained and given ACL that they might not need otherwise. What I am looking for is an easy and simple way to accomplish this as an author writing a blog post or article that would otherwise be as simple as adding a regular hyperlink.

Hey Paul,

Ah I see. I get what you mean now. Hm, we don't have such functionality with either the PDF or File block currently but I think a very simple hack could be added into the template file would help you achieve this.

1. Create a simple css code to hide all pdf iframes

2. Write a simple script code to generate a hyperlink beside each of these iframe.

3. Clicking on that link would then hide / show the iframe.