By Eddy R.
11-08-00
Flash V. 4.0

Creating a Flash movie is one thing but knowing how to display it in your web site is another. Not knowing how to insert a Flash movie into a web page is a common problem that many Web builders who are new to Flash face. Fortunately, in this tutorial we'll provide the solution to that very problem.

Embedding the Movie

Yes, a Flash movie has to be Embedded into a web page just like any other object (such as sound). The HTML tag that must be used to accomplish our objective is - yes, you guessed it, the <Embed></Embed> tags.

Now, let's go ahead and take a look at how we'd go about embedding the Flash movie using this tag. See the code below.

<embed src="/folder/your_flash_file.swf" quality=high
pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/
download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="200" height="200">
</embed>

The code above must be placed where you want your Flash movie to appear - where in your web page you want to movie to appear that is.

As you already know, the <Embed> tag is used to embed objects into a web document. The your_flash_file.swf must be replaced with the name of your movie file. The "quality" attribute designates the quality of the movie - there are four options: Low, Auto Low, Auto High, and High.

The "pluginspage" is used to specify where to send visitors who do not have the Flash plug-in installed in their systems, and "type" identifies the object being embedded.

Remember; practice makes perfect, so go ahead and practice embedding a few Flash movies on Web documents until you get the hang of it, in time you'll see that embedding Flash movies is a breeze!