element "EMBED" undefined

Oxigenando · Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Norway

When I run my page thru the w3c validator, I get this error:

â€œLine 28, column 25: there is no attribute "SRC"
<embed src="home_button.swf" base="" quality="high" pluginspage="
You have used the attribute named above in your document, but the document type you are using does not support that attribute for this element. This error is often caused by incorrect use of the "Strict" document type with a document that uses frames (e.g. you must use the "Transitional" document type to get the "target" attribute), or by using vendor proprietary extensions such as "marginheight" (this is usually fixed by using CSS to achieve the desired effect instead).
This error may also result if the element itself is not supported in the document type you are using, as an undefined element will have no supported attributes; in this case, see the element-undefined error message for further information.
How to fix: check the spelling and case of the element and attribute, (Remember XHTML is all lower-case) and/or check that they are both allowed in the chosen document type, and/or use CSS instead of this attribute. â€œ

Can anyone please help me with this, I have no idea what I need to do.
The whole line is:
<embed src="home_button.swf" base="" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100" height="22" ></embed>

Thanks.

degsy · Joined: 23 Feb 2005 Posts: 2440 Location: North East, UK

Here is an indepth article about it
http://www.alistapart.com/articles/flashsatay/

Oxigenando · Joined: 19 May 2005 Posts: 5 Location: Norway

Great, thanks.
I could not do everything it said though, when I did the flash buttons would not show in firefox.