HTMLEmbedElement

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since January 2020.

The HTMLEmbedElement interface provides special properties (beyond the regular HTMLElement interface it also has available to it by inheritance) for manipulating <embed> elements.

Note: This topic describes the HTMLEmbedElement interface as defined in the standard. It does not address earlier, non-standardized version of the interface.

EventTarget Node Element HTMLElement HTMLEmbedElement

Instance properties

Inherits properties from its parent, HTMLElement.

HTMLEmbedElement.align

A string representing an enumerated property indicating alignment of the element's contents with respect to the surrounding context. The possible values are "left", "right", "center", and "justify".

HTMLEmbedElement.height

A string reflecting the height HTML attribute, containing the displayed height of the resource.

HTMLEmbedElement.name

A string representing the name of the embedded object.

HTMLEmbedElement.src

A string that reflects the src HTML attribute, containing the address of the resource.

HTMLEmbedElement.type

A string that reflects the type HTML attribute, containing the type of the resource.

HTMLEmbedElement.width

A string that reflects the width HTML attribute, containing the displayed width of the resource.

Instance methods

Also inherits methods from its parent interface, HTMLElement.

HTMLEmbedElement.getSVGDocument()

Returns the embedded SVG as a Document.

Specifications

Specification
HTML Standard
# htmlembedelement

Browser compatibility

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See also

  • The HTML element implementing this interface: <embed>