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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">&lt;PARAM&gt;</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">2</span> IE <span class="emphasis">3</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">3.2</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">&lt;PARAM&gt;</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">HTML End Tag: Forbidden&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>The <span class="literal">param</span> element may be nested within an
<span class="literal">applet</span> or <span class="literal">object</span> element to
pass parameters to the Java applet or object (typically, an ActiveX
control in IE) as it is being loaded. Parameters provide ways for
HTML authors to adjust settings of an applet or object without having
to recode the applet or object. A parameter typically passes a
name/value pair, which is assigned to the <span class="literal">name</span> and
<span class="literal">value</span> attributes. You can have more than one
<span class="literal">param</span> element per applet or object. The
documentation for the applet or object should provide you with the
information necessary to pass those parameter values.
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="example"><span class="title">Example</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;APPLET code="simpleClock.class" name="myClock" width="400" height="50"&gt;
&lt;PARAM name="bgColor" value="black"&gt;
&lt;PARAM name="fgColor" value="yellow"&gt;
&lt;/APPLET&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Object Model Reference</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById(<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>)</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Element-Specific Attributes</span></td>
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						<table border="1"><tbody><tr><td><span class="literal">datafld</span></td><td><span class="literal">dataformatas</span></td><td><span class="literal">datasrc</span></td><td><span class="literal">name</span></td><td><span class="literal">type</span></td>
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								<tr><td><span class="literal">value</span></td><td><span class="literal">valuetype</span></td><td></td><td></td><td></td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Element-Specific Event Handler Attributes</span></td>
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					<td><p>None.</p>
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">datafld</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">n/a</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">datafld="<span class="replaceable">columnName</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>Used with IE data binding to associate a remote data source column
name with the parameter passed to a Java applet or object. In the
following example, data from a data source's column
named <span class="literal">backColor</span> is assigned to the
<span class="literal">value</span> attribute, even though the attribute is not
explicitly shown in the tag. More complex relationships are also
possible with both <span class="literal">object</span> and
<span class="literal">applet</span> elements. <span class="literal">datafld</span> works
only with text file data sources in IE 5/Mac.
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="example"><span class="title">Example</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;PARAM name="bgColor" datasrc="DBSRC2" dataformatas="text" datafld="backColor"&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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					<td><p>Case-sensitive identifier.</p>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td><p>None. </p>
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		</div><div id="dataformatas">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">dataformatas</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">n/a</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">dataformatas="<span class="replaceable">dataType</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>Used with IE data binding, this attribute advises the browser whether
the source material arriving from the data source is to be treated as
plain text or as tagged HTML. This attribute setting depends entirely
on how the data source is constructed and what kind of data the
<span class="literal">param</span> element is expecting.
<span class="literal">dataformatas</span> works only with text file data
sources in IE 5/Mac.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;PARAM name="bgColor" datasrc="DBSRC2" dataformatas="text" datafld="backColor"&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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					<td><p>IE recognizes two possible settings: <span class="literal">text</span> |
<span class="literal">html</span>.
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td><p><span class="literal">text</span></p>
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		</div><div id="datasrc">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">datasrc</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">n/a</span> IE <span class="emphasis">4</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">n/a</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">datasrc="<span class="replaceable">dataSourceName</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>Used with IE data binding to specify the ID of the
page's <span class="literal">object</span> element that loads
the data source object for remote data access. Content from the data
source is specified via the <span class="literal">datafld</span> attribute.
<span class="literal">datasrc</span> works only with text file data sources in
IE 5/Mac.
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="example"><span class="title">Example</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;PARAM name="bgColor" datasrc="DBSRC2" dataformatas="text" datafld="backColor"&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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					<td><p>Case-sensitive identifier.</p>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td><p>None. </p>
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		<div id="name">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">name</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">2</span> IE <span class="emphasis">3</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">3.2</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">name="<span class="replaceable">elementIdentifier</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Required&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>Assigns an identifier for the parameter that the applet or object is
expecting. Parameters generally supply a name/value pair. An applet,
for example, includes a routine that fetches each parameter by name
and assigns the passed value to a variable within the applet.
Documentation for the applet or object should provide a list of names
and value types corresponding to the <span class="literal">param</span>
elements.
</p>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;PARAM name="loop" value="4"&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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					<td><p>Case-sensitive identifier.</p>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
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					<td><p>None. </p>
					</td>
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		</div><div id="type">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">type</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">6</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">4</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">type="<span class="replaceable">MIMEType</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>When the <span class="literal">valuetype</span> attribute is set to
<span class="literal">"ref"</span>, the <span class="literal">type</span> attribute value
advises the browser about the content type of the file referenced by
the URL assigned to the <span class="literal">value</span> attribute. Omit the
<span class="literal">type</span> attribute for other settings of the
<span class="literal">valuetype</span> attribute.
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;PARAM name="help" value="http://www.giantco.com/help.html" valuetype="ref"
type="text/html"&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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					<td><p>Case-insensitive MIME type. A catalog of registered MIME types is
available from ftp://ftp.isi.edu/in-notes/iana/assignments/media-types/.
</p>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
				</tr>
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					<td><p>None. </p>
					</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Object Model Reference</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById(<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>).type</pre>
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		</div><div id="value">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">value</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">2</span> IE <span class="emphasis">3</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">3.2</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">value="<span class="replaceable">runTimeParameterValue</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p>The parameter value to be passed to an applet or object as the
executable program or data loads. Parameter values are passed as
string values, and it is up to the applet or object to perform the
necessary internal coercion of the data to the desired data type. The
<span class="literal">value</span> attribute is listed as optional because
there may be instances in which the presence of the
<span class="literal">param</span> element <span class="literal">name</span> attribute
may be sufficient for the object. Once the applet or object loads its
associated parameter values, scripts cannot dynamically modify those
values unless the applet or object is scriptable and exposes methods
designed to modify the values.
</p>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="example"><span class="title">Example</span></td>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;PARAM name="loop" value="4"&gt;</pre>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
				</tr>
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					<td><p>Any string value.</p>
					</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
				</tr>
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					<td><p>None. </p>
					</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Object Model Reference</span></td>
				</tr>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>[window.]document.getElementById(<span class="replaceable">elementID</span>).value</pre>
						</span></td>
				</tr>
			</table>
		</div><div id="valuetype">
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				<tr><td valign="top" class="name">valuetype</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="compatibility">NN <span class="emphasis">6</span> IE <span class="emphasis">6</span> HTML <span class="emphasis">4</span>&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap class="usage"><p class="literal">valuetype="<span class="replaceable">paramValueType</span>"</p>
					</td><td valign="top" nowrap class="requirements">Optional&nbsp;&nbsp;</td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="description"><p><span class="literal">object</span> element parameters can come in three
flavors: <span class="literal">data</span>, <span class="literal">object</span>, and
<span class="literal">ref</span>. The <span class="literal">valuetype</span> attribute
uses these constants to tell the browser how to treat the value
assigned to the <span class="literal">value</span> attribute for passing to the
object. When the <span class="literal">valuetype</span> is
<span class="literal">data</span>, the <span class="literal">value</span> attribute is
passed as a plain text string. A <span class="literal">valuetype</span> of
<span class="literal">object</span> means that the <span class="literal">value</span>
attribute consists of an identifier (<span class="literal">id</span> attribute
value) of some other <span class="literal">object</span> element defined
earlier in the same document. The other object may be one whose
<span class="literal">declare</span> attribute is set, and now the parameter
values are being passed to instantiate the object. When
<span class="literal">valuetype</span> is <span class="literal">ref</span>, the
<span class="literal">value</span> attribute is a URL that points to a file or
other resource where runtime values are stored (perhaps a set of
parameter values).
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="example"><span class="title">Example</span></td>
				</tr>
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					<td><span class="programlisting"><pre>&lt;PARAM name="anime" value="http://www.giantco.com/params/animation.txt"
valuetype="ref" type="text/html"&gt;</pre>
						</span></td>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="value"><span class="title">Value</span></td>
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					<td><p>Three possible constant values: <span class="literal">data</span> |
<span class="literal">object</span> | <span class="literal">ref</span>.
</p>
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					<td valign="top" nowrap colspan="2" class="default"><span class="title">Default</span></td>
				</tr>
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					<td><p><span class="literal">data</span> </p>
					</td>
				</tr>
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					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="CLEARSEPARATION">&nbsp;</td>
				</tr>
				<tr>
					<td valign="top" colspan="2" class="objectmodelreference"><span class="title">Object Model Reference</span></td>
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