HTML <object> tag

February 10, 2021 7:26 pm IST

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The <object> tag is used to embed an object in an HTML document.

An object can be an audio, video, ActiveX, PDF, Flash Java items that are handled by browser plugins.

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<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <object data="/resume.pdf" width="400" height="500"></object> </body> </html>

Attributes

The following are the attributes of <object> tag. Also try Global attributes.

Attribute	Value	Explanation
data	URL	Specifies the URL of the object (resource).
form	form_id	Specifies the object belongs to one or more forms.
height	px	Specifies the height of the object.
name	name	Specifies the name of the object.
type	media_type	Specifies the media_type of the object.
typemustmatch	-	Specifies the type attribute and the actual content type of the resource must match to be used.
usemap	#mapname	Specifies the partial URL (starting with #) of a map element associated with the element.
width	px	Specifies the width of the object.

The following attributes should not be used in any case.

Attribute	Value	Explanation
align	top bottom middle left right	Specifies the alignment of the <object>.
archive	URL	Specifies a space-separated list of URIs for archives of resources for the object.
border	px	Specifies the width of the border around the object.
classid	class_ID	Specifies the URI of the object's implementation.
codebase	URL	Specifies the link to the object code.
codetype	media_type	Specifies the content type of the data specified by classid.
declare	-	Specifies the object is only declared, but not created.
hspace	px	Specifies the whitespace on the left and right side of an object.
standby	text	Specifies a text to display while the <object> element is loading the object from the server.
vspace	px	Specifies the whitespace on the top and bottom side of an object.