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"A plugin is needed to display this content"

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  • Last reply by cor-el

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The source of the page is:

<html>
<head>
<title>Test</title>
</head>
<body>
<embed height="80" width="500" src="sound.mp3"> 
</body>
</html>

When loaded, "A plugin is needed to display this content" is displayed.

The source of the page is: <pre><nowiki> <html> <head> <title>Test</title> </head> <body> <embed height="80" width="500" src="sound.mp3"> </body> </html></nowiki></pre> When loaded, "A plugin is needed to display this content" is displayed.

Modified by cor-el

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html, head and body tags disappeared, should i use some markup for code?

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You can HTML escape tags as entities "&lt;html&gt;" and use pre tags for formatting.

To play an MP3 file via an embed tag you need a plugin that supports MP3 files like the Gecko Media player

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This player is for windows and i am using linux.

  1. uname -a

Linux hostname 3.15.1-1-ARCH #1 SMP PREEMPT Tue Jun 17 09:32:20 CEST 2014 x86_64 GNU/Linux

if that matters.

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What's wrong with the markup? '1.' is displayed instead of number sign

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If you start a line with a hash (#) then you create a numbered list.

Make sure that you show the KB article for Linux (click the Editing Tools button)