Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

The object element

The object element tells Internet Explorer (3.0 and later) to download and install the particular ActiveX player for Flash files and allows you to set many of the attributes for the Flash movie. The following is an example of the basic object element:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000"
codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.
cab#version=8,0,0,0" width="550" height="400" id="file" align="middle">
    <param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain" />
    <param name="movie" value="path/file.swf" />
    <param name="quality" value="high" />
    <param name="bgcolor" value="#ffffff" />
</object>

The classid parameter identifies the Flash ActiveX control, and codebase provides the browser with its location for downloading. The value of the classid attribute should appear in your HTML file exactly as it is shown above and applies to all Flash versions. Notice that the codebase attribute points to the Version 8 player. Other player versions and subreleases can be targeted with this method by adjusting the version number.

The width and height attributes are required. Note that you can also specify the dimensions in percentages (corresponding to the percentage of the browser window the movie fills).

By default, standard id and align attributes are exported as well from the authoring tool (for more information about publishing with Flash, see the earlier section "Using Flash Publish Settings“).

There are a number of parameters ...