The embed element was initially introduced by the Netscape 2.0 browser and its purpose was to allow developers to embed a third party data object into a web document. That always required that this particular plugin-in is installed on the user's PC, or otherwise a warning message would occur. The embed element was officially first time introduced in HTML5, meaning that in all previous HTML standards it was an "unofficial" element or tag.

Syntax:

<embed />

Attributes:

  • src - Provides the path of the external file to be used; it has to be in a form of URL.
  • type - Specifies the media type that of the embedded object.
  • width - Defines the width of the embedded object in pixels.
  • height - Defines the height of the embedded object in pixels.
  • global attributes
  • event attributes

Example

The example with embed tag in HTML5:

 

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