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- What is it?
- The PARAM tag is used to pass values to an embedded
OBJECT (usually an embedded program) or to
an embedded Java APPLET. In both situations
PARAM serves the same purpose and has the implementation (mostly because
the official OBJECT with PARAM usage was meant to absorb the APPLET with
PARAM functionality.)
- Attributes
- Name
- 2
| 3 | 3.2
| IE3A1 | M
| N2
- Required? Yes
- Description:
This attribute identifies a symbolic name for the current parameter.
It is coupled to a VALUE attribute to complete the parameter assignment.
- Values: Alphanumeric characters.
- Value
- 2
| 3 | 3.2
| IE3A1 | M
| N2
- Required? No
- Description:
This identifies a value for the current parameter.
It is coupled to a NAME attribute to complete the parameter assignment.
- Values: Alphanumeric characters
- Example
- [Applet usage]
- <applet CODEBASE="http://www.foo.com/java/" CODE="javaexample.class" WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=300>
<param NAME=text1
VALUE="Example Text 1">
<param NAME=imagecaption VALUE="Image
Caption">
<param NAME=bounceimage VALUE="bounce1.gif">
<img SRC="non_java_image.gif"
WIDTH=200 HEIGHT=300
BORDER=0 ALT="You
are missing the full Java Experience.">
</applet>
[Object usage]
- <object
CODETYPE="application/java-vm"
CODEBASE="http://www.foo.com/applet.class"
CLASSID="java:program.start"
HEIGHT="100"
WIDTH="100">
<param NAME="options"
VALUE="xqz">
If you can read this you are too close.<br>
AND your browser does not support Java.
</object>
- Parent Model
- <applet> |
<object>
- Content Model
- This tag accepts no content
Tips & Tricks
Browser Peculiarities
- The online DTD and HTML reference for Microsoft Internet
Explorer 3 mentions other supported attributes to the PARAM
tag:
- TYPE: indicates MIME type of
the Parameter value
- VALUETYPE: Specifies how to
interpret the parameter value. It can take be one of these
values:
data
[The value is data. Default]
ref
[value is a URL]
object
[value is a URL of an object in the same document.]
I have not yet verified if these 2 attributes are really
supported yet.
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