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units property (embed)

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Specifies or returns the measurement system used for the height and width properties of an embed object.

The embed tag is a non-standard tag in HTML but supported by all commonly used browsers.

Syntax:

object.units;

You can find the related objects in the Supported by objects section below.

This property is read/write.

HTML page for this property: units

Possible values:

String that sets or retrieves the measurement system.

One of the following values:

Width and height values are relative to the size of the current font.

Explorer default. Width and height values are in pixels.

Default: this property has no default value.

Example HTML code 1:

This example illustrates the use of the units attribute:

<embed id="myEmbed" type="application/x-mplayer2" src="testVideo.wmv" 
        style="width:320px; height:286px;" units="em" />

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Example HTML code 2:

This example illustrates the use of the units property:

<head>
    <script type="text/javascript">
        function GetUnits () {
            var embed = document.getElementById ("myEmbed");

            if ('units' in embed) {
                alert (embed.units);
            } else {
                alert ("Your browser doesn't support this example!");
            }
        }
    </script>
</head>
<body>
    <embed id="myEmbed" type="application/x-mplayer2" src="testVideo.wmv" 
            style="width:320px; height:286px;" units="em" />
    <br />

    <button onclick="GetUnits ();">Get width and height units!</button>
</body>