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HTML HTML Objects Embedded Elements

Raquel Redondo
Raquel Redondo
6,494 Points
Posted by Raquel Redondo
Raquel Redondo
6,494 Points

param and embed closing tags error.

When I copy-paste the youtube code in my workspace, the closing param and embed tags (</param> and </embed>) are highlighted with red. When I preview my code there is nothing wrong, everything is working perfectly. I do not know what's wrong. Here is a copy of Youtube's code I am using:

    <object width="420" height="315">
      <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_OBlgSz8sSM?hl=es_ES&amp;version=3"></param>
      <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param>
      <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always"></param>
      <embed src="//www.youtube.com/v/_OBlgSz8sSM?hl=es_ES&amp;version=3" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="420" height="315" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
    </object>

2 Answers

Dustin Matlock
Dustin Matlock
33,856 Points

Raquel,

YouTube is most likely trying to support multiple configurations with their code. That may be the reason why there's an error in the workspace.

If you prefer to use the older version, you can use this code generator, and below is an example of what it generated.

<object type="application/x-shockwave-flash" style="width:420px; height:315px;" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/_OBlgSz8sSM?color2=FBE9EC&amp;version=3&amp;fs=1">
        <param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/_OBlgSz8sSM?color2=FBE9EC&amp;version=3&amp;fs=1" />
        <param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" />
        <param name="allowscriptaccess" value="always" />
        </object>
Robert Manolis
STAFF
Robert Manolis
Treehouse Guest Teacher
Robert Manolis
Robert Manolis
Treehouse Guest Teacher

If the preview is correct than the coloring might just be the default styling of the workspaces text editor.

You know what they say... "if aint broke... "

Raquel Redondo
Raquel Redondo
6,494 Points
Raquel Redondo
Raquel Redondo
6,494 Points

Thank your for your answer. I don't think that's the case because all other closing tags (that are before the param tags) are colored normal. This type of highlighting has happened to me before whenever I made some kind of typo. I am guessing that it is some kind of incompatibility between the html versions. Apparently Treehouse's workspace may be working with a newer version of html.