Web Design in a Nutshell, 2nd Edition

Name

<object> — NN 3, 4, 6 MSIE 3, 4, 5, 5.5, 6 HTML 4.01 WebTV Opera5

Synopsis

<object>...</object>
                  

A generic element used for placing an object (such as an image, applet, media file, etc.) on a web page. It is similar to the <embed> tag but is the W3C’s approved method for adding elements to a page. Browser support for the <object> tag is not up to standards. Support in Navigator 4 is buggy, and in IE 4 (and even 5), the tag is generally useful only for ActiveX controls.

Attributes

align=baseline|center|left|middle|right|textbottom|textmiddle|texttop

Deprecated. Aligns object with respect to surrounding text. See the <img> tag for explanations of the align values.

archive= urls

Specifies a space-separated list of URLs for resources that are related to the object.

border= number

Nonstandard. Sets the width of the border in pixels if the object is a link.

classid=url

Identifies the location of an object’s implementation. It is used with or in place of the data attribute. The syntax depends on the object type.

codebase= url

Identifies the base URL used to resolve relative URLs in the object (similar to <base>). By default, the codebase is the base URL of the current document.

codetype= codetype

Specifies the media type of the code. It is required only if the browser cannot determine an applet’s MIME type from the classid attribute or if the server does not deliver the correct MIME type when downloading the object.

data= url

Specifies the URL of the data used for the object. ...