Learning HTML by yourself
E - Video continuing
14/11/2011 17:32As in the last lesson we touched a bit on putting in the code for a video. Below is a more complete explanation of the
Embed Tag Reference
Attributes | Examples | Discription |
Autostart | true | whether or not to start the file upon loading |
bgcolor | #000000 | specifies color of embed area |
border | 10 | puts a border around the file |
controller | true | gives the file playback control or not - this should be a must for the sake of people coming to your site. |
height | height 150 | height of the movie |
hidden | false | hides the file (for sound files). |
loop | true | wether or not to loop the file over & over again. |
pluginspage | (web page) | where to download a plug-in if it's missing - like quicktime movie maker. |
scr | filename.mov | name of video file |
width | 150 | width of the embedded file |
Here is an example of the tag with all of its attributes:
<embed autostart="true" bgcolor="#000000" border="10"
controller="true" height="150" hidden="false" loop="true"
pluginspage="https://www.apple.com/quicktime/download/indext.html"
src="filename.mov" width="150">
Obviously we won't need all of those to make a video show up, so let's just use the bare essentials. Make your embed tag look like this:
Replace filename.mov with the name of your movie and it should show up. This is all you have to do, the rest of the attributes are just options. Some people like to use tables or other tricks to make nice layouts or borders around their movies. That could be handled in Layout of Embedding Video
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