TYPE Attribute | type Property

Sets or retrieves the content type of the resource designated by the value attribute.

Syntax

HTML <PARAM TYPE = p... >
Scripting PARAM.type(v) [ = p ]

Possible Values

p String that specifies or receives the content type of the resource designated by the value attribute only in the case where valueType is set to ref. This attribute thus specifies for the user agent the type of values that will be found at the Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) designated by value.
The property is read/write. The property has no default value.

Remarks

The content type specifies the nature of a linked resource. Examples of content types include "text/html", "image/png", "image/gif", "video/mpeg", "audio/basic", "text/tcl", "text/javascript", and "text/vbscript". For the current list of registered content types, see Media Types .

Example

The following example shows how to use the param element to specify a run-time parameter for the object specified by the object element. A URI is specified for the Microsoft Windows Media® Player control.
<OBJECT CLASSID="clsid:22D6F312-B0F6-11D0-94AB-0080C74C7E95">
<PARAM NAME="FileName"
VALUE="http://msdn.microsoft.com/workshop/samples/author/behaviors/media/28movie.asf"
VALUETYPE="ref" TYPE="video/*"/>
</OBJECT>

Standards Information

This property is defined in World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 .

Applies To

PARAM