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HTML param: Main Tips
- The
param
tags can be used to define HTML parameters for the <object> element setting embedded data. - These tags support all global attributes. There are four tag specific attributes, but two of them have been deprecated in HTML5.
- You don't need to use a closing tag when defining HTML parameters.
Defining Parameters: HTML <param>
An <object> element can represent an external resource in a webpage, such as an application or an image. To set its HTML parameters, you can use <param>
tags:
<object data="cactus.mp3">
<param name="autoplay" value="true">
</object>

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HTML param Attributes
Two attributes you can use for HTML parameters are name
and value
. They specify the name and the value of a parameter, respectively:
<object data="cactus.mp3">
<param name="autoplay" value="true">
</object>
There are also two attributes that should not be used as they were deprecated in HTML5: valuetype
and type
.
valuetype
defined the type of the value (data
, ref
, or object
). When the value of valuetype
was set to ref
, you could also use type
to define the media type of the parameter:
<object title="Param Tag Example">
<param valuetype="ref" value="param-tag-audio.mp3" type="audio/mpeg">
</object>
Browser support

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Edge

Firefox

IE

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Mobile browser support

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