<EMBED>

Description:

The easiest and "most supported" way to add video or sound to your web site is to include the special HTML tag called EMBED. This causes the browser itself to include controls for the multimedia. No ActiveX, Java, VBscript or JavaScript is needed for this method.

This tag is one-sided, meaning that there is no </EMBED> tag. Multimedia elements included in this manner appear on their own line and are centered on the page.

It's also a good idea to include the <NOEMBED> tag to support browsers which don't recognize the <EMBED> tag. You could, for example, use <EMBED> to display a movie of a dog, and <NOEMBED> to display a single JPG frame. The <NOEMBED> tag requires the </NOEMBED> tag.

The <EMBED> tag causes a control panel to be displayed. This appears as follows:

Attributes:

align=alignment

Determines how to align the object. May have the following values:

CENTER	Center the header
LEFT	Align to the left
RIGHT	Align to the right

"browser specific parameter"=value

Any number of browser specific parameters which are needed by the embedded object.

autostart="n"	*Internet Explorer and Netscape*. Indicates if the sound should start automatically. Netscape default is TRUE, Internet Explorer is FALSE.
endtime="mm:ss"	*Netscape*. Indicates spot (minutes and seconds) on track where play is to end.
href="url"	*Internet Explorer*. Converts sound control file into URL.
loop="n"	*Netscape*. Specifies if the sound should be played continuously (set loop to TRUE), a certain number of times (a positive value) or not at all (FALSE).
playcount="n"	*Internet Explorer*. Specifies the number of times to play the sound.
pluginspace="url"	*Netscape*. Location of software necessary to install the plugin file. Only needed if the plugin is not a standard one.
pluginurl="url"	*Netscape*. Location of software necessary to play the sound file. Only needed if the plugin is not a standard one.
starttime="mm:ss"	*Netscape*. Indicates spot (minutes and seconds) on track where play is to start.
target="url"	*Internet Explorer*. Converts sound control file into URL.
volume="n"	*Netscape*. Controls volume of the sound. Can be from 0 (off) to 100 (full volume).

hidden="value"

Defines if the object shows on the page. FALSE means no and TRUE means yes.

height="n"

Height of the object in pixels or en.

NAME="name"

A name used to reference the object.

SRC="url"

URL of the object to be embedded. This can be any recognized (by the client system) sound file (.midi, .wav and so on).

units="x"

Indicates how to measure the units.

pixels	The default - measure in pixels.
en	Measure in en spaces.

width="n"

Width of the object in pixels or en.

"optional parameter"=value

Any number of optional parameters which are needed by the embedded object. These are totally dependant upon what's required by the object itself.

Examples:

This command embeds the movie "mymovie.mov" at the current location with a window which is 100 by 100 pixels.