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valueType attribute (param)

Browser support:

Specifies the type of the object that is set with the value attribute.

JavaScript page for this attribute: valueType. You can find other example(s) there.

Possible values:

String that sets the type of the data.

One of the following values:

data

Default. The contents of the value attribute is a string.

object

The contents of the value attribute is an identifier.

ref

The contents of the value attribute is a URI. The MIME type of the resource designated by the value attribute can be specified with the type attribute.

Default: data.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the valueType attribute with Windows Media Player:

<object type="application/x-mplayer2" data="testVideo.wmv" width="320px" height="286px">
    <param name="src" value="testVideo.wmv" valuetype="ref" type="video/x-ms-wmv" />
</object>