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Usage

The object element represents an embedded object or ActiveX control. It can represent an external resource, which, depending on the type of the resource, will either be treated as an image, as a nested browsing context, or as an external resource to be processed by a plugin.

Attributes

• align
• alt
• archive
• border
• classid
• code
• codebase
• codetype
• data
• declare
• height
• hspace
• name
• standby
• type
• usemap
• vspace
• width
• common attributes

Browser compatibility

Compatibility table legend

| Test | IE8 | IE7 | IE6 | FF3 | FF2 | Saf3 | Op9 | Chrome | |:---------|:--------|:--------|:--------|:--------|:--------|:---------|:--------|:-----------| | appears in DOM | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y | | applies style | Y | N | N | Y | Y | Y | Y | Y |

Further reading

• The object element in HTML 5
• The object element in HTML 4
• The object element on MSDN
• The history of the object element on blooberry.com