Adding Attributes to Secondary Movies

When you set a param element, it always affects the movie specified by the src or data elements. Sometimes, however, you may want to control the attributes for a movie specified with the href parameter that we saw on the previous page, or with the qtnext parameter that we’ll see on the next page. You do this with a rather convoluted system called URL extensions.

To add attributes to secondary movies:

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Insert < (the code for the less than sign) before the URL for the secondary movie.
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Add > (the code for the greater than sign) after the URL for the secondary movie.
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Then, after the > code, type T<place>, where place specifies where the movie should be targeted.
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After the target, type ...

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