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    <a href="html5-picture-tag.php.html">&lt;picture&gt;</a>
    <a href="html-pre-tag.php.html">&lt;pre&gt;</a>
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                <h1>HTML <code>&lt;param&gt;</code> Tag</h1>
                <p class="topic">Topic: <a href="html-tag-list.php.html">HTML5 Tags Reference</a><span class="topic-nav"><a href="html-p-tag.php.html">Prev</a>|<a href="html5-picture-tag.php.html">Next</a></span></p>
                <h2>Description</h2>
                <p>The <code>&lt;param&gt;</code> (short for parameter) tag defines parameters to be passed to an embedded object at run-time defined by the <a href="html-object-tag.php.html"><code>&lt;object&gt;</code></a> tag.</p>
                <p>Any number of <code>&lt;param&gt;</code> elements may appear inside an <code>&lt;object&gt;</code> element, in any order, but must be placed at the start of the content.</p>
                <p>The following table summarizes the usages context and the version history of this tag.</p>
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                            <th>Parent:</th>
                            <td><a href="html-object-tag.php.html"><code>&lt;object&gt;</code></a>, <a href="html-applet-tag.php.html"><code>&lt;applet&gt;</code></a></td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <th>Content:</th>
                            <td>None. It is an <a href="../html-tutorial/html-elements.php.html#empty-elements">empty element</a>.</td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <th>Start/End Tag:</th>
                            <td>Start tag: <strong>required</strong>, End tag: <strong>forbidden</strong></td>
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                        <tr>
                            <th>Version:</th>
                            <td>HTML 3.2, 4, 4.01, 5</td>
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                <h2>Syntax</h2>
                <p>The basic syntax of the <code>&lt;param&gt;</code> tag is given with:</p>
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                    <div class="syntax"><i>HTML:</i><span class="tag">&lt;param <span class="attribute">name</span>="<i><span class="attribute-value">text</span></i>"&gt;</span>; <i>XHTML:</i><span class="tag">&lt;param <span class="attribute">name</span>="<i><span class="attribute-value">text</span></i>" /&gt;</span></div>
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                            <p><strong>Note:</strong> In HTML, the end tag for the <code>&lt;param&gt;</code> tag is forbidden. In XHTML, the <code>&lt;param&gt;</code> tag must be closed with a trailing slash, like this: <code>&lt;param /&gt;</code>.</p>
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                <p>The example below shows the <code>&lt;param&gt;</code> tag in action.</p>
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                        <div class="codebox-title"><h4>Example</h4><a href="../codelab.php%3Ftopic=html&amp;file=param-tag.html" target="_blank" class="try-btn" title="Try this code using online Editor">Try this code <span>&raquo;</span></a></div>
                        <pre class="syntax-highlighter line-numbers"><code class="language-markup">&lt;object type="application/x-shockwave-flash"&gt;
    &lt;param name="movie" value="video/blur.swf"&gt;
&lt;/object&gt;</code></pre>
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                <h2>Tag-Specific Attributes</h2>
                <p>The following table shows the attributes that are specific to the <code>&lt;param&gt;</code> tag.</p>
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                            <th>Attribute</th>
                            <th>Value</th>
                            <th>Description</th>
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                            <td colspan="3" class="section"><strong>Required</strong> &mdash; The following attribute must be specified on this tag for the markup to be valid.</td>
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                            <td><code>name</code></td>
                            <td><i>text</i></td>
                            <td>Specifies the name of the parameter.</td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td colspan="3" class="section"><strong>Optional</strong> &mdash; The following attributes are optional.</td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td><code>value</code></td>
                            <td><i>text</i></td>
                            <td>Specifies the value of the parameter.</td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td><code>type</code></td>
                            <td><i>content type</i></td>
                            <td><a href="../definitions.php.html#obsolete" class="obsolete">Obsolete</a> Specifies the type of the value attribute.</td>
                        </tr>
                        <tr>
                            <td><code>valuetype</code></td>
                            <td><code>data<br />ref<br />object</code></td>
                            <td><a href="../definitions.php.html#obsolete" class="obsolete">Obsolete</a> Specifies the type of the value attribute.</td>
                        </tr>
                    </table>
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                <hr />
                <h2>Global Attributes</h2>
                <p>Like all other HTML tags, the <code>&lt;param&gt;</code> tag supports the <a href="html-common-attributes.php.html">global attributes in HTML5</a>.</p>
                <hr />
                <h2>Event Attributes</h2>
                <p>The <code>&lt;param&gt;</code> tag also supports the <a href="html5-event-attributes.php.html">event attributes in HTML5</a>.</p>
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                <h2>Browser Compatibility</h2>
                <p>The <code>&lt;param&gt;</code> tag is supported in all major modern browsers.</p>
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                                    <h2>Basic Support&mdash;</h2>
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                                        <li>Firefox <span>1+</span></li>
                                        <li>Google Chrome <span>1+</span></li>
                                        <li>Internet Explorer <span>3+</span></li>
                                        <li>Apple Safari <span>1+</span></li>
                                        <li>Opera <span>5+</span></li>
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                <h2>Further Reading</h2>
                <p>See tutorial on: <a href="../html-tutorial/html5-audio.php.html">HTML Audio</a>, <a href="../html-tutorial/html5-video.php.html">HTML Video</a>.</p>
                <p>Related tag: <a href="html-object-tag.php.html"><code>&lt;object&gt;</code></a>.</p>
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