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Web Design in a Nutshell
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Web Design in a Nutshell

by Jennifer Niederst
November 1998
Intermediate to advanced
578 pages
28h 15m
English
O'Reilly Media, Inc.
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Name

<object> — NN: 2, 3, 4 - MSIE: 2, 3, 4, 5 - HTML 4 - WebTV - Opera3

Synopsis

                     <object>...</object>
                  

Places an object (such as an applet, media file, etc.) on a web page. It is similar to the <embed> tag. The <object> tag often contains information for retrieving ActiveX controls that Internet Explorer on Windows uses to display the object.

Attributes

textmiddle|texttop

Aligns object with respect to surrounding text.

border=number

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

classid= url

Identifies the class identifier of the object. The syntax depends on the object type.

codebase= url

Identifies the URL of the object’s codebase. Syntax depends on the object.

codetype= codetype

MSIE 3.0/4.0 and HTML 4.0 Spec only. Specifies the media type of the code.

data= url

Specifies the URL of the data used for the object. The syntax depends on the object.

declare

MSIE 3.0 and HTML 4.0 Spec only. Declares an object without instantiating it.

height= number

Specifies the height of the object in pixels.

hspace= number

Holds n pixels space clear to the left and right of the object.

name= text

Specifies the name of the object to be referenced by scripts on the page.

shapes

MSIE 3.0 and HTML 4.0 Spec only. Indicates that the object contains an imagemap.

standby= message

MSIE 3.0 and HTML 4.0 Spec only. Specifies message to display during object loading.

type= type

Specifies the media type for the data.

usemap= url

Specifies image map to use with the object.

vspace= number ...
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