<PARAM ...>

Parameters are how you give details about how an applet should run. You use <PARAM ...> to communicate parameters. For example, if you want to tell MyApplet what text to display, you use the TEXT parameter.

this code	produces this
<APPLET CODE="MyApplet.class" HEIGHT=50 WIDTH=100> <PARAM NAME=TEXT VALUE="Hey Dude"> </APPLET>

The <PARAM ...> tag in the above example simply says TEXT="Hey Dude". This method of assigning a name with one attribute and a value with another is a way of bridging the gap between the worlds of HTML and Java.

Here's what each piece means:

<PARAM

This is a parameter to pass to MyApplet.

NAME=TEXT

The name of the parameter to pass is "TEXT"

VALUE="Hey Dude"

The value of the "TEXT" parameter is "Hey Dude".

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