# Components dissappear from stage when viewed in HTML but not in Flash Player app

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**Created:** [August 22, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/components-dissappear-from-stage-when-viewed-in-html-but-not-in-flash-player-app/236649 "2007-08-22T15:32:07Z")\
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**Author:** ![cpruitt](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/f475e1/32.png) [@cpruitt](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/cpruitt)\
**Post date:** [August 22, 2007, 3:32pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/components-dissappear-from-stage-when-viewed-in-html-but-not-in-flash-player-app/236649/1 "2007-08-22T15:32:07Z")

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I’m really hoping someone can help me here. I’ve been working on a project for a while now (still very new to AS but I’m getting there) and am supposed to be showing an initial release tomorrow. I have a main app (Application.swf) that contains all the business logic classes. Application.swf then loads Skin.swf which contains all of the GUI widgets & design. The idea is that Skin.swf can be swapped out for Skin2.swf and customized if desired.

Skin.swf contains 2 AS3 components: ComboBox & DataGrid

When I test Application.swf the components appear and work fine. When I double click Application.swf and open it in Flash Player.app (standalone flash player from Adobe) the components appear & work fine. When I export to HTML and view Application.swf in a browser page the components are both completely missing. Not that they are present but have no data, they are just completely absent from the stage.

I can’t figure out how this could be the case unless maybe there is a security setting somewhere that’s triggered by the .swf running in a browser.

Any help would be HUGELY appreciated.  
Thanks,  
Cliff