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Asked: 2026-05-11T20:05:31+00:00

I have markup in my page that includes the tag: <body> <object codebase=blah codetype=text/blah>

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I have markup in my page that includes the tag:

<body>
  <object codebase="blah" codetype="text/blah">
    <param name="name" value="value"/>
    <div>Some Markup</div>
  </object>
</body>

The idea is for browsers to display the content of the <div> by default, but if a special JS library is present, it will find all the elements and transform the ones it cares about (based on @codetype).

This works in Firefox and WebKit, but fails in IE, because that browser seems to strip off the outer <object> element, and just leaves the inner <div>. That is, under Explorer, the DOM I get from the above markup looks like this:

<body>
  <div>Some Markup</div>
</body>

Is this a documented behavior? Is there any way to make IE preserve the <object> element in the DOM untouched? (I am currently testing this with IE7.)

Note: This isn’t for embedding Flash, or similar multimedia.

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  1. Editorial Team

    Hmm… According to a post on MSDN, Internet Explorer before version 7 would remove from DOM any <object> whose content couldn’t be rendered.

    I guess this makes my problem a catch-22. I can add some data that would make IE render the <object> (such as make it show a 1 pixel image), which would enable the Element in the DOM, but this would hide the “fallback” markup.

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