How to embed a swf file into html code?

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I need to embed a swf file into html code. How can I do it?

possible duplicate of [Best way to embed a SWF file in a html page?](http://stackoverflow.com/questions/137326/best-way-to-embed-a-swf-file-in-a-html-page) — Trufa, Apr 18 '11 at 16:34
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score 10 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 18 '11 at 16:34

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Use SWFObject:

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/wiki/documentation

<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Strict//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-strict.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" lang="en" xml:lang="en">
  <head>
    <title>SWFObject dynamic embed - step 3</title>
    <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
    <script type="text/javascript" src="swfobject.js"></script>

    <script type="text/javascript">
    swfobject.embedSWF("myContent.swf", "myContent", "300", "120", "9.0.0");
    </script>

  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="myContent">
      <p>Alternative content</p>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

answered Apr 18 '11 at 16:34

Brad

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When you posted this, it was correct but SWFObject is now deprecated. So developers would be better to look at the answer from @denislexic – brianlmerritt Oct 23 '17 at 09:35
@brianlmerritt Developers would be better to not use Flash at all these days. – Brad Oct 23 '17 at 18:11
Absolutely, but some sites still do - it's a pain! – brianlmerritt Oct 23 '17 at 21:58
@brianlmerritt Sure, and if you're still using Flash, you'll still have no problems with SWFObject. It's as useful now as it was before. – Brad Oct 23 '17 at 22:50
Let's let future visitors make up their iwb minds. Hopefully no one else will end up here, but if they do there is now a comment trail that they can follow... – brianlmerritt Oct 25 '17 at 07:14

score 9 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 18 '11 at 16:37

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From w3school

<object width="550" height="400">
   <param name="movie" value="somefilename.swf">
   <embed src="somefilename.swf" width="550" height="400">
   </embed>
</object>

More info here

answered Apr 18 '11 at 16:37

denislexic

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As a rule of thumb, W3Schools is considered to be a very poor source of information and referencing it is frowned upon here. I won't downvote you for it, but others might. – David Apr 18 '11 at 16:38
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@david I disagree with you. You can see its reputation over the internet. W3schools is really good for HTML/CSS information. – Muhammad Imran Tariq Apr 18 '11 at 17:12
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@imran tariq: I can see its popularity, but can you cite a source for its reputation? Regardless, in at least this community it's highly discouraged. For reference: http://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/87678/discouraging-w3schools-as-a-resource – David Apr 18 '11 at 17:19
@david I'll make a note of it. Thanks. – denislexic Apr 18 '11 at 17:48
I'll vote you up for w3schools. I often use it as quick reference when I need something. I don't learn there but it keeps the things for me I don't want to or can't remember? – Bitterblue Dec 03 '14 at 09:18

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Apr 18 '11 at 16:34

You should try using flashobject. It's a Javascript utility that will detect whether the plugin is installed in a cross browser way and replace a given div with the flash object you want.

Update. I see someone else has posted a link to SWFObject. That's what I was looking for when I posted this. You should use that instead. It's more actively developed and maintained.

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