[removed] Changing src-attribute of a embed-tag

Question

I have the following scenario.

I show the user some audio files from the server. The user clicks on one, then onFileSelected is eventually executed with both the sel

Answer 1

You should remove the embed element and reinject it with the new src parameter set.

embed like object and similar are two elements which, due do their special uses (video, audio, flash, activex, ...), in some browsers are handled differently from a normal DOM element. Thus changing the src attribute might not trigger the action you expect.

The best thing is to remove the existing embed object an reinsert it. If you write some kind of wrapper function with the src attribute as parameter this should be easy