# Controlling individual SWF's in HTML

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-individual-swfs-in-html/176949>\
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**Created:** [January 28, 2006, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-individual-swfs-in-html/176949 "2006-01-28T08:19:39Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 28, 2006, 8:19am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/controlling-individual-swfs-in-html/176949/1 "2006-01-28T08:19:39Z")

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Hi there,

Let’s say I have and HTML page that contains lots of small SWFs: example:

```auto
http://www.flashprojects.sk/_work/unpub/pieces.htm

```

Let’s say each of those SWFs has also assigned method STOP(); which stops it from playing further and PLAY(); which starts playing it(ex: u can see “PLAY” btn in example attached).

Now what i want to do:  
I want to be able to controll ANY of those SWFs from ANY other SWF inside that HTML file. Ex: i click 1 SWF to PLAY(); and ALL other playing SWFs will be STOP();-ped, so that only 1 SWF plays at a time.

So the Q is: How can i address/target other SWFs from outside themselves(from inside other SWFs) inside HTML file.

Thanks for your attention!