Sams Teach Yourself HTML 4 in 24 Hours
- Table of Contents
- Copyright
- About the Author
- Acknowledgments
- Tell Us What You Think!
- Put Your HTML Page Online Today
- I. Your First Web Page
- Hour 1. Understanding HTML and XML
- Hour 2. Create a Web Page Right Now
- Hour 3. Linking to Other Web Pages
- Hour 4. Publishing Your HTML Pages
- II. Web Page Text
- Hour 5. Text Alignment and Lists
- Hour 6. Text Formatting and Font Control
- Hour 7. Email Links and Links Within a Page
- Hour 8. Creating HTML Forms
- III. Web Page Graphics
- Hour 9. Creating Your Own Web Page Graphics
- Hour 10. Putting Graphics on a Web Page
- Hour 11. Custom Backgrounds and Colors
- Hour 12. Creating Animated Graphics
- IV. Web Page Design
- Hour 13. Page Design and Layout
- Hour 14. Graphical Links and Imagemaps
- Hour 15. Advanced Layout with Tables
- Hour 16. Using Style Sheets
- V. Dynamic Web Pages
- Hour 17. Embedding Multimedia in Web Pages
- Hour 18. Interactive Pages with Applets and ActiveX
- Hour 19. Web Page Scripting for Non-Programmers
- Hour 20. Setting Pages in Motion with Dynamic HTML
- VI. Building a Web Site
- Hour 21. Multipage Layout with Frames
- Hour 22. Organizing and Managing a Web Site
- Hour 23. Helping People Find Your Web Pages
- Hour 24. Planning for the Future of HTML
- VII. Appendixes
- A. Readers' Most Frequently Asked Questions
- B. HTML Learning Resources on the Internet
- C. Complete HTML 4 Quick Reference
- D. HTML Character Entities
Summary
In this hour you've seen how to embed video and sound into a Web page. But remember that the <embed /> tag (and its successor, the <object> tag) can be used to include a vast array of media types besides just AVI and MIDI files. Some of these media types are alternative audio and video formats that aim to achieve greater compression, quality, or compatibility than the Windows standard formats. Others, such as Shockwave and QuickTime VR, add a variety of interactive features that old-fashioned audiovisual media types lack. Table 17.1 summarizes the tags discussed in this hour.
Table 17.1. HTML Tags and Attributes Covered in Hour 17
| Tag | Attribute | Function |
| <embed /> | Embeds a file to be read or displayed by a Netscape plug-in application. | |
| src="&hellip" | The URL of the file to embed. | |
| width="&hellip" | The width of the embedded object in pixels. | |
| height="&hellip" | The height of the embedded object in pixels. | |
| align="&hellip" | Determines the alignment of the media window. Values are the same as for the <img> tag. | |
| vspace="&hellip" | The space between the media and the text above or below it. | |
| hspace="&hellip" | The space between the media and the text to its left or right. | |
| border="&hellip" | Draws a border of the specified size in pixels around the media. | |
| <noembed>…</noembed> | Alternate text or images to be shown to users who do not have a plug-in installed or are using browsers that don't recognize the <embed /> tag. | |
| <object>…</object> | Inserts images, videos, Java applets, ActiveX controls, or other objects into a document. (See Hour 18 for attributes of the <object> tag.) |
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