FireFox and Transparent Flash

**DevonWright** · Aug 17, 2004 07:49

I'm trying to get a Flash file to show up as having a transparent background.

I'm able to get it to show up properly in IE [or....it shows how I want it to in IE...be it properly coded or not]. However, when I attempt to view in FireFox it shows the regular background [which is white].

Code:

 <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="550" height="360">
    <param name="movie" value="course.swf">
    <param name="quality" value="high">
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent">
    <embed src="course.swf" width="550" height="360" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed></object>

<param name="wmode" value="transparent"> is what is supposed to make it transparent.

I eventually gave up and just changed the background of the flash file to match the page.

I'm just curious if I did the code itself wrong [well...Dreamweaver did the code for me for this particular event] or if FireFox doesn't allow transparent flash files.

Any help would be great.

**Seinfeld** · Aug 17, 2004 11:39

You may find some help here

**DevonWright** · Aug 17, 2004 13:11

That was where I found out how to do it originally.

I guess FireFox just isn't supported for this type of thing. [it said Mozzila was...but I guess FireFox isn't]