HTML <param> Tag

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The <param> tag passes the parameters to the objects (Java applets or multimedia content) embedded with the <applet>, <object>, <audio> and <video> elements. The <param> tag regulates the behaviour of the <object> tag with different pair of the name of value attributes, like controller, autoplay, etc.

More than one <param> tag can be used inside of an <object> element, but each of them should include name and value attribute and must be placed at the beginning of the content.

Syntax

The <param> tag is empty, which means that the closing tag isn’t required. But in XHTML, the (<param>) tag must be closed (<param/>).

<[applet | object | audio | video]>
  ...
  <param name="..." value="...">
  ...
</[applet | object | audio | video]>

Example of the HTML <param> tag:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>The title of the document</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Steve Jobs' Commencement address at Stanford</p>
    <object width="320" height="240" data="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bZNEB_o3Hzw?ecver=2"
    <param name="autoplay" value="true">
    </object>
  </body>
</html>

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Example of the HTML <param> tag with the name and value attributes:

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
  <head>
    <title>The title of the document</title>
  </head>
  <body>
    <p>Steve Jobs' Commencement address at Stanford</p>
    <object width="320" height="240" data="https://www.youtube.com/embed/bZNEB_o3Hzw?ecver=2"
    <param name="video" value="play">
    </object>
  </body>
</html>

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Attributes

Attribute	Value	Description
name	name	Sets the name of the parameter. Is used with value attribute
type	media_type	Specifies the media type of the parameter Not supported in HTML5.
value	value	Sets the value of the parameter. Is used along with name attribute.
valuetype		Sets the type of the value
	data	The value is passed to the object's implementation as a string (default value) .
	object	An ID of another <object> in the same document
	ref	The value is a URI to a resource where run-time values are stored.
		Not supported in HTML5.