<NOEMBED></NOEMBED>

Displays content if EMBED can't be done

Element introduced by Netscape to help hide some things from the browser. It can actually be used to start up sound files as in the following example:

	<html>
	<head>
	<title>Embedding sound file</title>
	</head>
	<body>
	   .
	   .
	<embed src="theme-sh.wav" autostart="true" volume="100" width="0" height="0">
==>>	<noembed>Fa-la-la-la-la la-la la la</noembed>
	   .
	   .
	</body>
	</html>

Now what really happens is this - if the browser is capable of recognizing the embed element then it's also capable of recognizing the noembed element. So it detects whether it's allowed to do the embed, does it if it can or it does normal HTML stuff contained in the noembed tags if it can't.

If the browser doesn't recognize the embed/noembed stuff then according to the rules of the road - it ignores all the associated stuff inside the <>'s and just does the stuff outside of them. Basically all the embed/noembed tags are invisible and all the browser see's is a line of text to display.

No problem!

HTML 3.2 Final

Not mentioned.

Netscape

Introduced as an extension some time ago, but I can't find any Netscape documentation on it. I would think this has been replaced by the applet element.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Not supported.

Internationalization

Not supported.

Michael T. Rusk
Comments to author: mike@ruskfamily.com

Revised: Sunday, December 30, 2007 11:06 -0500
URL: ./htmlgd/tagnoemb.html