<PARAM>

Defines parameters to be passed to APPLET

Element used to pass values to an applet when it preparing to run on the viewer's computer.

        <html>
        <head>
        <title>Some Title</title>
        </head>
        <body>
            .
            .
        <APPLET code="fphover.class" codebase="../_fpclass/" width="120" height="24">
==>>        <PARAM name="text" value="Muse">
==>>        <PARAM name="color" value="#800000">
==>>        <PARAM name="hovercolor" value="#C0C0C0">
==>>        <PARAM name="textcolor" value="#FFFFFF">
==>>        <PARAM name="effect" value="glow">
==>>        <PARAM name="url" value="dm/dmtop.htm" valuetype="ref">
==>>        <PARAM name="font" value="TimesRoman">
==>>        <PARAM name="fontstyle" value="bold">
==>>        <PARAM name="fontsize" value="18">
        </APPLET>
            .
            .
        </body>
        </html>

This particular example comes from the buttons on my front page. All the values for the "param" lines are unique to this particular APPLET. Each applet will have things that it wants you to define so it works properly. I haven't done much exploring in the Java world yet so I don't know where a all the APPLET's and their descriptions reside. Give me a little while and I'll include that here. As a start, I might suggest you check out the Sun site since they are the proud authors of Java.

HTML 3.2 Final

The specification defines the following attributes that can be specified with the param element:

name: Name of the parameter you are passing. Defined in the documentation for the applet.
value: The actual value you are going to pass to the applet.

Netscape

Nothing special.

Microsoft Internet Explorer

Nothing special.

Internationlization

Nothing special.

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

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