User Guide

334 Chapter 15: Publishing

Editing Flash HTML settings

You need an HTML document to play a Flash SWF file in a web browser and specify browser

settings. If you are experienced with HTML, you can change or enter HTML parameters in an

HTML editor or create custom HTML files to control a Flash SWF file.

You can also have Flash create the HTML document automatically when you publish a SWF file;

see “Publishing Flash documents” on page 311. For information on customizing HTML

templates included in Flash, see “Customizing HTML publishing templates” on page 330.

Using object and embed tags

To display a Flash SWF file in a web browser, an HTML document must use the

object and

embed

tags with the proper parameters.

For

object, four settings (height, width, classid, and codebase) are attributes that appear

within the

object tag; all others are parameters that appear in separate, named param tags, as

shown in the following example:

height="100" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/

flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0">

</object>

For the embed tag, all settings (such as height, width, quality, and loop) are attributes that

appear between the angle brackets of the opening

embed tag, as shown in the following example:

loop="true" quality="high"

pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/

index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">

</embed>

To use both tags, position the embed tag before the closing object tag, as shown in the following