HTMLEmbedElement: src property

Baseline Widely available

This feature is well established and works across many devices and browser versions. It’s been available across browsers since ⁨July 2015⁩.

The src property of the HTMLEmbedElement interface returns a string that indicates the URL of the resource being embedded.

It reflects the src attribute of the <embed> element.

Value

A string.

html

<embed
  id="el"
  type="video/quicktime"
  src="movie.mov"
  width="640"
  height="480"
  title="Title of my video" />

const el = document.getElementById("el");
console.log(el.src); // Output: "movie.mov"

Specification
HTML # dom-embed-src

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