Object tag

[Disk-t]

How do I edit the src of an <object> tag using JS?

[Ralf-J]

What you mean is not src ( which is part of the image ) but the path to the object, right?

<object data="myvideo.avi" type="video/x-msvideo" name="myobject">
<img src="file.ext">
</object>

If you want to change the path to the data it should work with:

window.document.myobject.data="mynewvideo.avi";

You also need a event to change the path. To test it you can copy this into the body :

<object data="myvideo.avi" type="video/x-msvideo" name="myobject" onMouseOver='changePath()'>
<img src="file.ext" width="9" height="9" border="0" alt="" ></object>


It's using the onMouseover event to call the function changePath().

Now insert the following script to the head of the page:

<script language='JavaScript1.2'>
<!--
function changePath()
{
alert(window.document.myobject.data);
window.document.myobject.data="mynewvideo.avi";
alert(window.document.myobject.data);
}

/-->
</script>

The alert window shows you the content of myobject.data before and after the path is changed - it's only to test the function.

I hope this helps.

regards

Ralf-J.