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Summary: <object> Tag and Attributes

<object style="width:240px; height:70px" data="LINK" type="text/html" standby="Loading&hellip;"></object>

Attributes for the <object> tag:

data - The URL of the object (required).
width - Width of object. Use CSS instead.
height - Height of object. Use CSS instead.
standby - Text to display when loading.
archive - The URL for archived versions.
name - The name of the object if you are using it in JavaScript/VBScript or some other scripting language.

type - The MIME type of the object (required). See MIME Reference on W3Schools.

Just a Few MIME Types
MIME Type	File Type / Extension
text/html	html, htm
application/msword	doc (docx?)
application/pdf	pdf
application/rtf	rtf
application/vnd.ms-excel	xls
application/vnd.ms-powerpoint	ppt
application/x-director	dcr
application/x-mspublisher	pub
application/x-shockwave-flash	swf
audio/mpeg	mp3
text/plain	txt
video/mpeg	mpg, mpeg
video/quicktime	mov, qt
video/x-msvideo	avi
video/x-ms-wmv	wmv

May be incompatible with browsers - "From personal experience, adding those attributes will only render it in Internet Explorer."
- classid - Defines a ClassID in the registry.
- codebase - Defines where the code is for the object??
- codetype - The MIME type for the code in the above 2 values??
Deprecated - Use CSS instead:
- align - Aligns the object.
- border - The border around the object.
- hspace/vspace - Margins around the object.