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HTML 5 <object> Tag

The HTML <object> tag is used for embedding an object within an HTML document. Use this tag to embed multimedia in your web pages.

You can use the <param> tag to pass parameters to plugins that have been embedded using the <object> tag.

You can also use the <object> tag to embed another webpage into your HTML document.

Example 1 (click and drag)

Embeds a Quicktime movie into a web page


Example 2

Embeds another HTML document into the web page.


Attributes

HTML tags can contain one or more attributes. Attributes are added to a tag to provide the browser with more information about how the tag should appear or behave. Attributes consist of a name and a value separated by an equals (=) sign, with the value surrounded by double quotes. Here's an example, style="color:black;".

There are 3 kinds of attributes that you can add to your HTML tags: Element-specific, global, and event handler content attributes.

The attributes that you can add to this tag are listed below.

Element-Specific Attributes

The following table shows the attributes that are specific to this tag/element.

AttributeDescription
dataSpecifies the location of data to be used by the object. The value must be a valid URL.
typeSpecifies the object type as specified in the data attribute. Must be a valid MIME type.
typemustmatchThis attribute is used in order to to make it safer for authors to embed untrusted resources where they expect a certain content type. The attribute specifies that the resource specified by the data attribute is only to be used if the value of the type attribute and the Content-Type of the aforementioned resource match.

The typemustmatch attribute must only be used when both the type and data is also being used.

The typemustmatch is a boolean attribute. If the attribute is present, its value must either be the empty string or a value that is an ASCII case-insensitive match for the attribute's canonical name, with no leading or trailing whitespace (i.e. either typemustmatch or typemustmatch="typemustmatch")..

Possible values:

  • [Empty String]
  • typemustmatch
nameAssigns the name of the object.
usemapSpecifies the name of an image map to use on this object.
formSpecifies the ID of a form to which this object belongs.

Possible values:

[The ID of a form element in the element's owner Document]
widthSpecifies the width, in pixels, to display the external content.

Possible values:

[Non-negative integer] (for example, 300)
heightSpecifies the height, in pixels, to display the external content.

Possible values:

[Non-negative integer] (for example, 150)

Global Attributes

The following attributes are standard across all HTML 5 tags.

For a full explanation of these attributes, see HTML 5 global attributes.

Event Handler Content Attributes

Event handler content attributes enable you to invoke a script from within your HTML. The script is invoked when a certain "event" occurs. Each event handler content attribute deals with a different event.

Here are the standard HTML 5 event handler content attributes.

For a full explanation of these attributes, see HTML 5 event handler content attributes.

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