standby

Summary

A message for the browser to show while an object’s implementation and data load.

Examples

The standby attribute used to alert users to a lengthy delay before the image displays.

<object data="huge-picture.png" standby="Loading...">
</object>

Notes

Remarks

This property has no default value.

Windows Internet Explorer does not render the standby message while loading an object’s implementation or data; however, some objects may react to or display the content of this string.

standby was introduced in Microsoft Internet Explorer 6

Syntax

Standards information

• Document Object Model (DOM) Level 1 Specification, Section 2.5.5

Related specifications

HTML5 differences from HTML4: Obsolete Attributes

Editor’s Draft

See also

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External resources

• http://dev.w3.org/html5/html4-differences/
• http://reference.sitepoint.com/html/object/standby

Related pages

• object

Attributions

• Mozilla Developer Network : [[1] Article]

• Microsoft Developer Network: [Windows Internet Explorer API reference Article]