Opening tag : <EMBED>
Closing tag: -

Purpose:
The embed tag is used to embed some multimedia within a webpage - it is the simplest way to add a video to your page.

Attributes:
align=alignment
- Specifies where the object should appear, choices are LEFT, CENTER or RIGHT.

hidden=bool
- Specifies if the object should appear on the page - options are TRUE or FALSE.

height=#
- Specifies the height of the object in pixels

name=name
- Specifies a name for the object

src=url
- Specifies the location of the object

units = x
- The default measurement is pixels, but the units attribute allows you to swap to 'en'

width = #
- Specifies the width of the object in pixels (by default)

There are also several optional parameters, and browser specific parameters, which we don't list here as they are not consistent.

Example:

<EMBED src="movie.mov" width=200 height=200>

Related Tags:

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