[Tutorial] Flash - Create transparent flash movies for HTML

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If you have ever tried to embed a flash movie on a webpage, you may have noticed that whatever background colour you chose when you created the flash is present in your movie on the page. Meaning technically you can only really have a rectangle flash movie on your stage unless you spend time seamlessly trying to blend the images and movies together.

Well, although you cannot change the fact that your flash movies will always be rectangular, you can give the illusion that it is any shape you like by getting rid of the background colour.

It all lies in your HTML coding for embedding flash movies. Take a look:

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<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"  ID="mymovie" width="250" height="100">
<param name="movie" value="mymovie.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="wmode" value="Transparent">
<embed src="mymovie.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#FFFFFF"
type="application/x-shockwave-flash" >
</object>

Notice that the value for wmode is transparent. This is the key part and it basically makes the background of the flash movie transparent - try it for yourself

YES! just what i needed!
*fixes everything on my site*