Dynamic HTML: The Definitive Reference

Name

VALUETYPE — NN n/a IE n/a HTML 4

Synopsis

VALUETYPE=”paramValueType"

Optional

OBJECT element parameters can come in three flavors: data, object, and ref. The VALUETYPE attribute uses these constants to tell the browser how to treat the value assigned to the VALUE attribute for passing to the object. When the VALUETYPE is data, the VALUE attribute is passed as a plain text string. A VALUETYPE of object means that the VALUE attribute consists of an identifier to some other OBJECT element defined earlier in the same document. The other object may be one whose DECLARE attribute is set, and now the parameter values are being passed to instantiate the object. When VALUETYPE is ref, the VALUE attribute is a URL that points to a file or other resource where run-time values are stored (perhaps a set of parameter values).

Example

<PARAM NAME="anime" VALUE="http://www.giantco.com/params/animation.txt"
VALUETYPE="ref" TYPE="text/html">

Value

Three possible constant values: data | object | ref.

Default

data