Web Design in a Nutshell, 3rd Edition

The embed element

The basic embed tag is as follows:

<embed src="path/file.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#ffffff" width="550" height="400"
name="file" align="middle" allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" pluginspage=
"http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />

The src attribute tells the Flash Player where the file to load is located, similar to the movie parameter of the object tag. The width and height tags again specify the dimensions of the image or movie in pixels. The pluginspage attribute provides a URL to the page where the user can download the Flash Player if it is not found on the user’s computer (use the exact URL shown in the example code). It is a recommended attribute, but not mandatory.

There are a number of attributes (some Flash-specific) in total that can be added within the embed tag. The following list details all the attributes available. Note, many of these attributes are duplicates of the parameters found in the object tag. If no explanation for the attribute is given here, please refer to its counterpart for the object tag written previous to this text:

src="path/file.swf" quality="low|autolow|autohigh|high|medium|best" id="text" or name="text"

The name attribute assigns a name to the movie, which is necessary if it is going to be called from a JavaScript or within a form. It is general practice to use the same name as the .swf file with the suffix omitted.

bgcolor="# rrggbb"

width="(number of pixels)"

height="(number of pixels)" ...