<EMBED ...

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Usage Recommendation
use it, but don't rely on it
 SRC: URL of resource to be embedded  AUTOSTART: if the sound/movie should
start automatically
 WIDTH: width of area in which to show
resource  LOOP: how many times to play the
sound/movie
 HEIGHT: height of area in which to
show resource  PLAYCOUNT: how many times to play the
sound/movie
 ALIGN: how text should flow around
the picture  VOLUME: how loud to play the sound

 NAME: name of the embedded object  CONTROLS: which sound control to display

 PLUGINSPAGE: where to get the plugin  CONTROLLER: if controls should be

software displayed
 PLUGINURL: where to get the JAR  MASTERSOUND: indicates the object in a
archive for automatic installation sound group with the sound to use
 HIDDEN: if the object is visible or not  STARTTIME: how far into the sound to
start and stop
 HREF: make this object a link
 ENDTIME: when to finish playing
 TARGET: frame to link to

<EMBED ...> puts a browser plugin in the page. A plugin is a special program located on the
client computer (i.e. not on your web server) that handles its own special type of data file. The
most common plugins are for sounds and movies. The <EMBED ...> tag gives the location of a
data file that the plugin should handle.

In its simplest use, <EMBED ...> uses the SRC attribute to indicate the location of the plugin data
file, and usually also gives a WIDTH and HEIGHT of the plugin area. For example, the following
code embeds a MIDI file of the 1812 Overture in the page:

this code produces this

<EMBED
SRC="../graphics/sounds/1812over.mid"
HEIGHT=60 WIDTH=144>

<EMBED ...> is not a part of the HTML 4 or xHTML 1 specifications, but it is still widely
supported by modern browsers. Unlike other tags, the attributes used by <EMBED ...> depend on
the type of plugin being used (this odd free-attribute concept is why <EMBED ...> has been
rejected by the HTML standards makers).

The only required attribute for <EMBED ...> is SRC, so let's begin there.