HTML Element: <object>
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The
HTML <object> element indicates an embedded
object, such as a Java applet, ActiveX or Flash plugin. It can also be used to
embed another webpage into the HTML document. <param> elements
can be used to pass parameters to plugins embedded within <object> elements.
<object> elements must appear inside the <body> element
of the webpage. Text between the opening <object>
and the closing </object> tags
is interpreted as alternative text that is displayed for browsers that do not
support the <object>
element. At least one of element’s data or type attributes
needs to be defined.
The attributes it can take
(other than HTML
global attributes and HTML event attributes)
include:
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Attribute
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Description
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More
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data
|
URL of
resource to be used by object
|
Here
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form
|
Name of the form that
element belongs to
|
Here
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height
|
Height of element
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Here
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name
|
Name of element
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Here
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type
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Type of element
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Here
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usemap
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Specifies an image as a
client-side image-map
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Here
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width
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Width of element
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Here
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It used to support the align, archive,
border, classid, codebase,
codetype, declare, hspace, standby
and vspace attributes, but these
are no longer supported by HTML 5.
To create or access such an element in JavaScript
see here. The
corresponding HTML DOM
object supports standard
DOM properties and methods, and additional properties with the same name and
meaning as the attributes of the underlying HTML element referred to above
(with the usemap property of the
underlying element corresponding to the useMap
property of the DOM object).
The default style
applicable to this element is shown here.
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