The Object object represents an HTML <object> element.
We can access an <object> element via document.getElementById()
:
var x = document.getElementById("myObject");
Click the button to get the URL of the embedded flash file.
<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <body> <object id="myObject" width="400" height="400" data="video.mp4"> </object>/*from w w w . j a v a 2 s . c o m*/ <button onclick="myFunction()">Test</button> <p id="demo"></p> <script> function myFunction() { var x = document.getElementById("myObject").data; document.getElementById("demo").innerHTML = x; } </script> </body> </html>