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Created April 14, 2011 22:08
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Uses HTML5 data-* attributes and old-school CSS content to get around that problem of PDF links causing browser hangs because you didn't check the URL.
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pdf_bombs.html
<!-- See it in action: http://jsfiddle.net/eVAg4/1/ -->
<!doctype html>
<head>
<meta charset="UTF-8">
<title>PDF link file sizes in CSS</title>
<style type="text/css">
a[href$=".pdf"]::after { content: " (PDF)"; }
a[href$=".pdf"][data-size]::after { content: " (PDF, " attr(data-size) ")"; }
</style>
</head>
<body>
<p>Here's some text. But watch out for the <a href="some.pdf">PDF bomb</a> sitting in this paragraph. There's another, <a href="another.pdf" data-size="2 MB">much bigger one</a> somewhere else, too.</p>
</body>
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