# Communicate with HTML

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicate-with-html/177057>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 29, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicate-with-html/177057 "2006-01-29T22:12:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![NeoDreamer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/ccd318/32.png) [@NeoDreamer](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/NeoDreamer)\
**Post date:** [January 29, 2006, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/communicate-with-html/177057/1 "2006-01-29T22:12:28Z")

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Is there any way to store a variable in the HTML document such as currentPage=“about”? I want to show a different picture in my Flash depending on what page it is on, but I don’t want to create 5 different SWF’s for 5 different pages.