Can I use javascript in html object definition?

I've got an embedded object definition, like

<OBJECT id='mediaPlayer' width="480" height="360"
classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95'
codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701'
standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...'
type='application/x-oleobject'>
<param name='fileName' value="Mymovie.mpg">
....

I'm wondering whether I can 'call' some javascript to enable me to generate
the required parameter value for the filename parameter. So, instead of
being hardcoded to say "Mymovie.mpg", I'd like to call a javascript function
or directly use a variable that returns the string from the
URL?name=movie.mpg parameter.

I've already got the javascript working to set a variable named qsParm[0] to
"movie.mpg"

That way I can call the same file from different URL's and simply specify
the file name to be played in the URL, rather than have loads of separate
html files for each.

Can someone tell me whether this is possible as described? I can't do PHP
etc.

Thanks!
Pascal

if you mean to generate the html codes by javascript like your sample,
i think there are several possible solutions.

1.use static javascript and a pre-defined variable
that is possible to define a variable outside a script file.
for example,use html like below:

<script language="javascript">
var mpgFile = "movie.mpg" ;
</script>
<script language="javascript" src="generateHtml.js"/>

while in file 'generateHtml.js' you use a non-defined variable 'mpgFile',
to build the html code,
and use document.write() to output



2.use dymatic javascript and a server variable
use code like this:
<script language="javascript" src="generateHtml.php?mpgFile=movie.mpg"/>
file 'generateHtml.php' should use sever variable $mpgFile ,
and output the entire html like your codes
using document.write() to output that~



hope help



Regards
vizo

Pascal Herczog wrote:

I've got an embedded object definition, like

OBJECT id='mediaPlayer' width="480" height="360"
classid='CLSID:22d6f312-b0f6-11d0-94ab-0080c74c7e95'
codebase='http://activex.microsoft.com/activex/controls/mplayer/en/nsmp2inf.cab#Version=5,1,52,701'
standby='Loading Microsoft Windows Media Player components...'
type='application/x-oleobject'
param name='fileName' value="Mymovie.mpg"
...

I'm wondering whether I can 'call' some javascript to enable me to generate
the required parameter value for the filename parameter. So, instead of
being hardcoded to say "Mymovie.mpg", I'd like to call a javascript function
or directly use a variable that returns the string from the
URL?name=movie.mpg parameter.

I've already got the javascript working to set a variable named qsParm[0] to
"movie.mpg"

That way I can call the same file from different URL's and simply specify
the file name to be played in the URL, rather than have loads of separate
html files for each.

Can someone tell me whether this is possible as described? I can't do PHP
etc.

Thanks!
Pascal