Help on using the <media> tag

Description The media tag is used to insert media objects into a CNXML document. The media objects can be images, applets, movies, sounds, or any object with a valid MIME type.

Example

<media type="application/postscript" 
       src="image1.eps">
  <param name='height' value='300'/>
  <param name='width'  value='200'/>
  <media type='image/png' src='image2.png'/>
</media>

The example illustrates the use of nested media tags. The outer (first) media's src attribute specifies the preferred image. If the reader's browser does not support that media type, the image specificied in the inner media's src attribute is used.

Attributes (what's this?)

type (required): The MIME type of the media object.
Note: Some examples of MIME types for common objects include image/png, audio/basic, video/quicktime, and application/x-java-applet. You can find the MIME type of a particular file type by looking at the "Type" column in the table of files after having uploaded the media file to the module (under the "Files" tab).
src (required): A relative or absolute URI indicating the path to the object (e.g. figure2.jpg, film.mov). If using a relative path, the file must reside within the module (not at the workspace or workgroup level). If using an absolute path, verify that the file storage location is stable and will not change.
id (optional): A unique identifier, whose value must begin with a letter and contain only letters, numbers, hyphens, underscores, colons, and/or periods (no spaces).

Children (what's this?) The media tag may contain one or more param tags, followed by one or more media tags.

Using the <media> tag