HTML uses the OBJECT tag to include objects, such as images, audios, videos, Java applets, ActiveX controls, Portable Document Format (PDF), and Flash objects, in a Web page.
The OBJECT tag allows you to specify the code that can be used to display or manipulate that data.
An OBJECT tag can also be used inside the BODY tag. The text between the starting and the ending tags of the OBJECT tag is the alternate text for browsers that do not support this tag.
The following table shows various attributes of the OBJECT tag.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| data | Specifies the URL of the object's data |
| form | Specifies one or more forms to which the object belongs |
| height | Specifies the height of the object in pixels |
| name | Specifies the object's name |
| type | Specifies the MIME type for the component |
| usemap | Specifies the URL |
| width | Sets the width of the embedded components in the page |
The OBJECT tag initializes the object by passing the parameters to the object, which can be done using the PARAM tag.
In HTML, you can use the PARAM tag to define parameters or variables for an OBJECT tag. An OBJECT tag can contains multiple PARAM tags, as shown in the following code snippet.
<OBJECT data="movie.avi" type="video/quicktime" id="video" width="200" height="100"> <PARAM name="BorderStyle" value="1" /> <PARAM name="autoplay value=true /> </OBJECT>
In the above code snippet, we have defined an OBJECT tag, which includes a video file in a Web page. We have also used the PARAM tags to pass the parameters for the OBJECT tag.
The following table shows the various attributes of the PARAM tag.
| Attribute | Description |
|---|---|
| name | Specifies the name of the parameter |
| value | Specifies the value of the parameter |