Executable Content - HTML and XHTML: The Definitive Guide - page 747

12.2.1.7. The align, class, border, height, hspace, style, vspace, and
width attributes
As with the corresponding attributes for the <img> tag, several attributes
let you control the appearance of the <object> display region. The height
and width attributes control the size of the viewing region. The hspace
and vspace attributes define a margin around the viewing region. The
value for each dimension attribute should be an actual number of pixels.
The align attribute determines how the browser aligns the region in con-
text with the surrounding text. [*] Use top , texttop , middle , absmiddle ,
baseline , bottom , or absbottom to align the object display space with ad-
jacent text, or left and right alignments for wraparound content.
[*] The align attribute is deprecated in the HTML 4 and XHTML standards because of the CSS stand-
ard, but it is still popularly used and supported.
The display region's dimensions often must match some other applet re-
quirement, so be careful to check these values with the applet program-
mer. Sometimes the applet may scale its display output to match your
specified region.
For instance, our example clock applet might grow or shrink to fit nearly
any size display region. Instead, we might fix it to a square space, 100
x 100 pixels:
<object classid="clock.class" height="100" width="100">
</object>
As with <img> , use the border attribute to control the width of the frame
that surrounds the object's display space when you include it as part
of a hyperlink. The null value ( border=0 ) removes the frame. [ <img>,
5.2.6 ]
Use the class and style attributes to control the display style for the
content enclosed by the tag and to format the content according to a