How to display PDF in div for a particular id using MVC?

First Method

As you have mentioned you have link/URL of the image and want to show something like that, so get the url of .pdf file in view and append it using <object> or <iframe> tag of HTML

Suppose you have Model.PdfURL saved in the database, then you can show it in view using code below

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/gview?url=@Model.PdfURL" width="200" height="200" type='application/pdf'>
</iframe>

For example, I have the pdf link as https://www.antennahouse.com/XSLsample/pdf/sample-link_1.pdf

Then looking at the above HTML, my code would be

<iframe src="https://docs.google.com/gview?url=https://www.antennahouse.com/XSLsample/pdf/sample-link_1.pdf&embedded=true" width="200" height="200" type='application/pdf'>
</iframe>

Note: if your website has HTTP(not secured URL) use HTTP for docs.google.com also

Working fiddle here

Second approach

You can use external library http://mozilla.github.io/pdf.js/examples/

Third approach

Display PDF File as PartialView. You can not specify the return type File as PartialViewResult. Let's use the HTML 5 tag embed in partialview to display pdf within browser and render the partial view inside div using AJax.ActionLink helper.

<div>@Ajax.ActionLink("View Temp PDF", "PDFPartialView", new AjaxOptions { UpdateTargetId = "pdfContainer" })</div> 

Let's create action method PDFPartialView inside  Home controller that returns PartialViewResult as below.

public PartialViewResult PDFPartialView()
{
    //if you don't have url get the url from database here by passing id in the ActionMethod
// and pass it in Partial View using ViewBag
    return PartialView();
}

Add view by selecting it as partial view. We have created partial view PDFPartialView. Create embed html 5 tag inside the partial view & specify src to the relative path of the PDF file as below.

<h3>Partial for display PDF</h3><br />
<embed src="/PDFURL.pdf" type="application/pdf"></embed> 
<!--Or you can use iframe also-->

If the above answer doesn’t work for you, here are the few links with same approach of <embed> tag, but explained in detail

https://www.aspsnippets.com/Articles/Display-Show-PDF-file-embedded-in-View-in-ASPNet-MVC-Razor.aspx

Second link which has 4 alternatives for your issue 

https://www.codeproject.com/Tips/697733/Display-PDF-within-web-browser-using-MVC