Name

START — NN n/a IE 4 HTML n/a

Synopsis

START="fileopen” | “mouseover”

Optional

Whenever you set the DYNSRC attribute of an IMG to display a video clip, you can direct the element to start playing the video immediately after the video file loads or when the user rolls the cursor over the image. The START attribute lets you decide the best user interface for your page.

Example

<IMG DYNSRC="snowman.avi" LOOP=1 START="mouseover" HEIGHT=100 WIDTH=150>

Value

One of the two case-insensitive constant values: fileopen | mouseover.

Default

fileopen

Object Model Reference

IE

[window.]document.images[i].start

[window.]document.imageName.start

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