The APPLET Tag

The APPLET tag takes the form:

<APPLET		code="applet-name.class" archive="url-for-applet-jar-file"
		width=width-in-pixels height=height-in-pixels
		align=left|right|center|top|bottom vspace=space-in-pixels
		hspace=space-in-pixels>
	HTML text to describe alternative material to display if browser
	does not support Java applets.
</APPLET>

The attributes included in the APPLET tag have the following meanings:

code

The code attribute provides the name of the Java "class" containing the methods that specify the behavior of the applet. This file will be named "SomeName.class" where "SomeName.java" is the name of the file containing your Java code and "SomeName" is the name that appears after the words "public class" near the top of the "SomeName.java" file.

archive

The archive attribute specifies the URL for a ".jar" file containing the Java virtual machine code produced when Metrowerks translated the contents of your ".java" file. Because Metrowerks puts the translated code in the ".jar" file within the starter folder, the string specified for this attribute will usually simply be an appropriate URL for this ".jar" file.

width

The width attribute determines the width of the rectangle within the web browser window that is associated with the browser when the file displaying the APPLET tag is viewed.

height

This attribute determines the height of the rectangular region reserved for the APPLET within the browser's window.

The remaining attributes -- align, vspace and hspace -- behave just like the corresponding attributes of the IMG tag.