Fade website background

Hey all,

I have a flash website where I would like the entire browser window to fade to black when viewing various thumbnails. It seems that Flash’s background color setting will bleed through the entire browser, but when I try to add a graphic to create the background fade it only goes so far as the flash stage.

The stage size is 780 pixels wide - do I need to create some sort of dynamic stage that scales to whatever the web browser size is? Otherwise, if the web browser goes bigger then 780 pixels the stage boundary is obvious.

In other words, am I able to control the padding between the stage and web browser if bigger than 780 pixels?

Thanks for any help!

Haus