Creating a transparent background
(windowless mode) in flash can come in handy, when you
would like the background
of an html page to appear through a flash movie. You
can also layer flash movies when using DHTML content.
Browsers that support windowless mode:
Internet Explorer 3 or higher for windows
Internet Explorer 5.1 and higher for Macintosh
Netscape 7.0
Mozilla 1.0 or higher
AOL
There are three different ways to make the background
transparent:
HTML for a Flash movie can be created using
the Publish Settings feature in Flash. The Publish Settings
dialog
box provides an option to affect the WMODE setting. Options
selected in the Publish Settings will be added to the HTML
source code automatically:
Choose File > Publish Settings. Select the HTML tab. -
Choose "Transparent" in
the WMODE setting to make a Flash movie's background
disappear in browsers which support this feature.
Publish the document.
-
In Dreamweaver MX, insert a Flash movie
into an HTML page.
Select the Flash movie in the Design View In the Properties panel, choose Parameters For the Parameter, enter "wmode" (without quotes). For the Value, enter "transparent" Save the document. The HTML page is complete. Editing HTML code manually
To edit an existing HTML page, add the WMODE parameters to the HTML code.
Add the following parameter to the OBJECT tag:
<
param name="wmode" value="transparent">
Add
the following parameter to the EMBED tag:
wmode="transparent"
In
the examples below you can see the same SWF file. One
has windowless mode enabled and the other one
does not. As you can see being able to make a flash file
transparent, has its advantages. |
