The following tag attributes and parameters describe the HTML code that the Publish command creates. Refer to this list as you write custom HTML to show Flash content. Unless noted, all items apply to both the object and embed tags. Optional entries are noted. Internet Explorer recognizes parameters used with the object tag; Netscape recognizes the embed tag. Attributes are used with both the object and embed tags. When you customize a template, you can substitute a template variable (identified in the Value section for each parameter in the following list) for the value.

devicefont attribute/parameter

(Optional) Specifies whether static text objects are rendered in device fonts, even if the Device Font option is not selected. This attribute applies when the necessary fonts are available from the operating system.

Value: true | false

Template variable: $DE

src attribute

Specifies the name of the SWF file to be loaded. Applies to the embed tag only.

Value: movieName.swf

Template variable: $MO

movie parameter

Specifies the name of the SWF file to be loaded. Applies to the object tag only.

Value: movieName.swf

Template variable: $MO

classid attribute

Identifies the ActiveX control for the browser. The value must be entered exactly as shown. Applies to the object tag only.

Value: clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000

width attribute

Specifies the width of the application either in pixels or as a percentage of the browser window.

Value: n or n%

Template variable: $WI

height attribute

Specifies the height of the application either in pixels or as a percentage of the browser window.

Note: Because Flash applications are scalable, quality doesn’t degrade at different sizes if the aspect ratio is maintained. (For example, the following sizes all have a 4:3 aspect ratio: 640 x 480 pixels, 320 x 240 pixels, and 240 x 180 pixels.)

Value: n or n%

Template variable: $HE

codebase attribute

Identifies the location of the Flash Player ActiveX control so that the browser can automatically download it if it is not already installed. The value must be entered exactly as shown. Applies to the object tag only.

Value: http://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,0,0

pluginspage attribute

Identifies the location of the Flash Player plug‑in so that the user can download it if it is not already installed. The value must be entered exactly as shown. Applies to the embed tag only.

Value: http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash

swliveconnect attribute

(Optional) Specifies whether the browser should start Java™ when loading Flash Player for the first time. The default value is false if this attribute is omitted. If you use JavaScript and Flash on the same page, Java must be running for the fscommand() function to work. However, if you use JavaScript only for browser detection or another purpose unrelated to fscommand() actions, you can prevent Java from starting by setting SWLIVECONNECT to false. To force Java to start when you are not using JavaScript, explicitly set the SWLIVECONNECT attribute to true. Starting Java substantially increases the startup time for a SWF file; set this tag to true only when necessary. Applies to the embed tag only.

Use the fscommand() action to start Java from a stand-alone projector file.

Value: true | false

play attribute/parameter

(Optional) Specifies whether the application begins playing immediately on loading in the web browser. If your Flash application is interactive, let the user initiate play by clicking a button or performing another task. In this case, set the play attribute to false to prevent the application from starting automatically. The default value is true if this attribute is omitted.

Value: true | false

Template variable: $PL

loop attribute/parameter

(Optional) Specifies whether the content repeats indefinitely or stops when it reaches the last frame. The default value is true if this attribute is omitted.

Value: true | false

Template variable: $LO

quality attribute/parameter

(Optional) Specifies the level of anti-aliasing to be used. Because anti-aliasing requires a faster processor to smooth each frame of the SWF file before it is rendered on the viewer’s screen, select one of the following values based on whether your priority is speed or appearance:

Low

Favors playback speed over appearance and never uses anti-aliasing.

Autolow

Emphasizes speed at first but improves appearance whenever possible. Playback begins with anti-aliasing turned off. If Flash Player detects that the processor can handle it, anti-aliasing is turned on. Note: SWF files authored using ActionScript 3.0 do not recognize the autolow value.

Autohigh

Initially emphasizes playback speed and appearance equally, but sacrifices appearance for playback speed if necessary. Playback begins with anti-aliasing turned on. If the frame rate drops below the specified frame rate, anti-aliasing is turned off to improve playback speed. Use this setting to emulate the Antialias command (View > Preview Mode > Antialias).

Medium

Applies some anti-aliasing and does not smooth bitmaps. It produces a better quality than the Low setting but a lower quality than the High setting.

High

Favors appearance over playback speed and always applies anti-aliasing. If the SWF file does not contain animation, bitmaps are smoothed; if the SWF file has animation, bitmaps are not smoothed.

Best

Provides the best display quality and does not consider playback speed. All output is anti‑aliased, and all bitmaps are smoothed.

The default value for quality is high if this attribute is omitted.

Value: low | medium | high | autolow | autohigh | best

Template variable: $QU

bgcolor attribute/parameter

(Optional) Specifies the background color of the application. Use this attribute to override the background color setting that the SWF file specifies. This attribute does not affect the background color of the HTML page.

Value: #RRGGBB (hexadecimal RGB value)

Template variable: $BG

scale attribute/parameter

(Optional) Defines how the application is placed in the browser window when width and height values are percentages.

Showall (Default)

Makes the entire content visible in the specified area without distortion while maintaining the original aspect ratio of the application. Borders can appear on two sides of the application.

Noborder

Scales the content to fill the specified area, without distortion but possibly with some cropping, while maintaining the original aspect ratio of the application.

Exactfit

Makes the entire content visible in the specified area without trying to preserve the original aspect ratio. Distortion can occur.

The default value is showall if this attribute is omitted (and width and height values are percentages).

Value: showall | noborder | exactfit

Template variable: $SC

align attribute

Specifies the align value for the object, embed, and img tags and determines how the SWF file is positioned within the browser window.

Default

Centers the application in the browser window and crops edges if the browser window is smaller than the application.

L, R, T, and B

Align the application along the left, right, top, or bottom edge, respectively, of the browser window and crop the remaining three sides as needed.

Value: Default | L | R | T | B

Template variable: $HA

salign parameter

(Optional) Specifies where a scaled SWF file is positioned in the area that the width and height settings define.

L, R, T, And B

Align the application along the left, right, top, or bottom edge, respectively, of the browser window and crop the remaining three sides as needed.

TL And TR

Align the application to the top-left and top-right corner, respectively, of the browser window and crop the bottom and remaining right or left side as needed.

BL And BR

Align the application to the bottom-left and bottom-right corner, respectively, of the browser window and crop the top and remaining right or left side as needed.

If this attribute is omitted, the content is centered in the browser window.

Value: L | R | T | B | TL | TR | BL | BR

Template variable: $SA

base attribute

(Optional) Specifies the base directory or URL used to resolve all relative path statements in the SWF file. This attribute is helpful when you keep SWF files in a different folder from your other files.

Value: base directory or URL

menu attribute or parameter

(Optional) Specifies what type of menu appears when the viewer right-clicks (Windows) or Command-clicks (Macintosh) the application area in the browser.

true

shows the full menu, which gives the user several options to enhance or control playback.

false

shows a menu that contains only the About Adobe Flash Player 6 option and the Settings option.

The default value is true if this attribute is omitted.

Value: true | false

Template variable: $ME

wmode attribute or parameter

(Optional) Lets you use the transparent Flash content, absolute positioning, and layering capabilities available in Internet Explorer 4.0. For a list of browsers this attribute/parameter supports, see Publishing Flash documents. The wmode paramater is also used for hardware acceleration in Flash Player 9 and later.

Window

Plays the application in its own rectangular window on a web page. Window indicates that the Flash application has no interaction with HTML layers and is always the top-most item.

Opaque

Makes the application hide everything behind it on the page.

Transparent

Makes the background of the HTML page show through all the transparent portions of the application and can slow animation performance.

Opaque windowless and Transparent windowless

Both interact with HTML layers, letting layers above the SWF file block out the application. Transparent allows transparency so that HTML layers below the SWF file can be seen through the background of the SWF file; opaque does not.

Direct

Level 1 - Direct mode hardware acceleration is turned on. The other window mode settings apply only when hardware acceleration is turned off.

GPU

Level 2 - GPU mode hardware acceleration is turned on. The other window mode settings apply only when hardware acceleration is turned off.

For more information about hardware acceleration, see Specify publish settings for SWF files.

The default value is Window if this attribute is omitted. Applies to object only.

Value: Window | Opaque | Transparent | Direct | GPU

Template variable: $WM

allowscriptaccess attribute or parameter

Use allowscriptaccess to let your Flash application communicate with the HTML page hosting it. The fscommand() and getURL() operations can cause JavaScript to use the permissions of the HTML page, which can be different from the permissions of your Flash application. This has important implications for cross-domain security.

always

Permits scripting operations at all times.

never

Forbids all scripting operations.

samedomain

Permits scripting operations only if the Flash application is from the same domain as the HTML page.

The default value that all HTML publish templates use is samedomain.

Value: always | never | samedomain

SeamlessTabbing parameter

(Optional) Lets you set the ActiveX control to perform seamless tabbing, so that the user can tab out of a Flash application. This parameter works only in Windows with the Flash Player ActiveX control, version 7 and higher.

true

(or omitted) Sets the ActiveX control to perform seamless tabbing: After users tab through the Flash application, the next tab keypress moves the focus out of the Flash application and into the surrounding HTML content or to the browser status bar if nothing can have focus in the HTML following the Flash application.

false

Sets the ActiveX control to behave as it did in version 6 and earlier: After users tab through the Flash application, the next tab keypress wraps the focus around to the beginning of the Flash application. In this mode, you cannot use the tab key to advance the focus past the Flash application.

Value: true | false

For object, four settings (height, width, classid, and codebase) are attributes that appear in the object tag; all others are parameters that appear in separate, named param tags, as shown in the following example:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="100" 
height="100" codebase="http://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0"> 
<param name="movie" value="moviename.swf"> 
<param name="play" value="true"> 
<param name="loop" value="true"> 
<param name="quality" value="high"> 
</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:

<embed src="moviename.swf" width="100" height="100" play="true" 
loop="true" quality="high" 
pluginspage="http://www.adobe.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 example:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="100" 
height="100" codebase="http://fpdownload.adobe.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=9,0,0,0"> 
<param name="movie" value="moviename.swf"> 
<param name="play" value="true"> 
<param name="loop" value="true"> 
<param name="quality" value="high"> 
<embed src="moviename.swf" width="100" height="100" play="true" 
loop="true" quality="high" 
pluginspage="http://www.adobe.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"> 
</embed> 
</object>