# Flash HTML Page Won't Center SWF?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-html-page-wont-center-swf/183403>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [March 26, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-html-page-wont-center-swf/183403 "2006-03-26T20:14:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![mstein78](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e47c2d/32.png) [@mstein78](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mstein78)\
**Post date:** [March 26, 2006, 8:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-html-page-wont-center-swf/183403/1 "2006-03-26T20:14:02Z")

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I published an html and swf. I want the swf to center in the html page. I selected the options to center it from the publish menu. but its is still left justified.  
Please help me cnter it.  
Here is the html page code of it helps.

\<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet --\>  
\<html lang=“en”\>  
\<head\>  
\<meta http-equiv=“Content-Type” content=“text/html; charset=iso-8859-1” /\>  
\<title\>111final7\</title\>  
\<script language=“JavaScript” type=“text/javascript”\>  
\<!–  
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------  
// Globals  
// Major version of Flash required  
var requiredMajorVersion = 8;  
// Minor version of Flash required  
var requiredMinorVersion = 0;  
// Revision of Flash required  
var requiredRevision = 0;  
// the version of javascript supported  
var jsVersion = 1.0;  
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------  
// --\>  
\</script\>  
\<script language=“VBScript” type=“text/vbscript”\>  
\<!-- // Visual basic helper required to detect Flash Player ActiveX control version information  
Function VBGetSwfVer(i)  
on error resume next  
Dim swControl, swVersion  
swVersion = 0

set swControl = CreateObject(“ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash.” + CStr(i))  
if (IsObject(swControl)) then  
swVersion = swControl.GetVariable("$version")  
end if  
VBGetSwfVer = swVersion  
End Function  
// --\>  
\</script\>  
\<script language=“JavaScript1.1” type=“text/javascript”\>  
\<!-- // Detect Client Browser type  
var isIE = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf(“MSIE”) != -1) ? true : false;  
var isWin = (navigator.appVersion.toLowerCase().indexOf(“win”) != -1) ? true : false;  
var isOpera = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf(“Opera”) != -1) ? true : false;  
jsVersion = 1.1;  
// JavaScript helper required to detect Flash Player PlugIn version information  
function JSGetSwfVer(i){  
// NS/Opera version \>= 3 check for Flash plugin in plugin array  
if (navigator.plugins != null && navigator.plugins.length \> 0) {  
if (navigator.plugins[“Shockwave Flash 2.0”] || navigator.plugins[“Shockwave Flash”]) {  
var swVer2 = navigator.plugins[“Shockwave Flash 2.0”] ? " 2.0" : “”;  
var flashDescription = navigator.plugins[“Shockwave Flash” + swVer2].description;  
descArray = flashDescription.split(" “);  
tempArrayMajor = descArray[2].split(”.");  
versionMajor = tempArrayMajor[0];  
versionMinor = tempArrayMajor[1];  
if ( descArray[3] != “” ) {  
tempArrayMinor = descArray[3].split(“r”);  
} else {  
tempArrayMinor = descArray[4].split(“r”);  
}  
versionRevision = tempArrayMinor[1] \> 0 ? tempArrayMinor[1] : 0;  
flashVer = versionMajor + “.” + versionMinor + “.” + versionRevision;  
} else {  
flashVer = -1;  
}  
}  
// MSN/WebTV 2.6 supports Flash 4  
else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf(“webtv/2.6”) != -1) flashVer = 4;  
// WebTV 2.5 supports Flash 3  
else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf(“webtv/2.5”) != -1) flashVer = 3;  
// older WebTV supports Flash 2  
else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf(“webtv”) != -1) flashVer = 2;  
// Can’t detect in all other cases  
else {

flashVer = -1;  
}  
return flashVer;  
}  
// If called with no parameters this function returns a floating point value  
// which should be the version of the Flash Player or 0.0  
// ex: Flash Player 7r14 returns 7.14  
// If called with reqMajorVer, reqMinorVer, reqRevision returns true if that version or greater is available  
function DetectFlashVer(reqMajorVer, reqMinorVer, reqRevision)  
{  
reqVer = parseFloat(reqMajorVer + “.” + reqRevision);  
// loop backwards through the versions until we find the newest version  
for (i=25;i\>0;i–) {  
if (isIE && isWin && !isOpera) {  
versionStr = VBGetSwfVer(i);  
} else {  
versionStr = JSGetSwfVer(i);  
}  
if (versionStr == -1 ) {  
return false;  
} else if (versionStr != 0) {  
if(isIE && isWin && !isOpera) {  
tempArray = versionStr.split(" “);  
tempString = tempArray[1];  
versionArray = tempString .split(”,");  
} else {  
versionArray = versionStr.split(".");  
}  
versionMajor = versionArray[0];  
versionMinor = versionArray[1];  
versionRevision = versionArray[2];

versionString = versionMajor + “.” + versionRevision; // 7.0r24 == 7.24  
versionNum = parseFloat(versionString);  
// is the major.revision \>= requested major.revision AND the minor version \>= requested minor  
if ( (versionMajor \> reqMajorVer) && (versionNum \>= reqVer) ) {  
return true;  
} else {  
return ((versionNum \>= reqVer && versionMinor \>= reqMinorVer) ? true : false );  
}  
}  
}  
return (reqVer ? false : 0.0);  
}  
// --\>  
\</script\>  
\</head\>  
\<body bgcolor="#000000"\>  
\<!–url’s used in the movie–\>  
\<!–text used in the movie–\>  
\<!–

–\>  
\<script language=“JavaScript” type=“text/javascript”\>  
\<!–  
var hasRightVersion = DetectFlashVer(requiredMajorVersion, requiredMinorVersion, requiredRevision);  
if(hasRightVersion) { // if we’ve detected an acceptable version  
var oeTags = ‘\<object classid=“clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000”’  
+ ‘width=“800” height=“550”’  
+ ‘codebase=“[http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab"\>’](http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab%22%3E')  
+ '\<param name=“movie” value=“111final7.swf” /\>\<param name=“quality” value=“high” /\>\<param name=“scale” value=“exactfit” /\>\<param name=“bgcolor” value=”#000000" /\>’  
+ '\<embed src=“111final7.swf” quality=“high” scale=“exactfit” bgcolor="#000000" ’  
+ ‘width=“800” height=“550” name=“111final7” align=“top”’  
+ ‘play=“true”’  
+ ‘loop=“false”’  
+ ‘quality=“high”’  
+ ‘allowScriptAccess=“sameDomain”’  
+ ‘type=“application/x-shockwave-flash”’  
+ 'pluginspage="[http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"\>’](http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer%22%3E')  
+ ‘\</embed\>’  
+ ‘\</object\>’;  
document.write(oeTags); // embed the flash movie  
} else { // flash is too old or we can’t detect the plugin  
var alternateContent = ‘Alternate HTML content should be placed here.’

- ‘This content requires the Macromedia Flash Player.’
- ‘\<a href=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/\>Get Flash\</a\>’;  
document.write(alternateContent); // insert non-flash content  
}  
// --\>  
\</script\>  
\<noscript\>  
// Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting  
// or for those that have scripting disabled.  
Alternate HTML content should be placed here. This content requires the Macromedia Flash Player.  
\<a href="\<A href=“[http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/"\>Get"](http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/%22%3EGet%22)\>[http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/](http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/)”\>Get Flash\</a\>  
\</noscript\>  
\</body\>  
\</html\>

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**Author:** ![azwebdesigns](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/8dc957/32.png) [@azwebdesigns](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/azwebdesigns)\
**Post date:** [March 27, 2006, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-html-page-wont-center-swf/183403/2 "2006-03-27T02:51:10Z")

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Wow, you didn’t really need to post the entire ‘head’ script, but that’s ok.  
Here is your new script. \*\*NOTE: \*\*this is from the closing head tag \</head\> and down. Just replace your code with this.

```auto
 
</head>
<body bgcolor="#000000">
<Table width="100%" align="center">
<tr align="center">
<td align="center">
<!--url's used in the movie-->
<!--text used in the movie-->
<!--
-->
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!-- 
var hasRightVersion = DetectFlashVer(requiredMajorVersion, requiredMinorVersion, requiredRevision);
if(hasRightVersion) { // if we've detected an acceptable version
var oeTags = '<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"'
+ 'width="800" height="550"'
+ 'codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab">'
+ '<param name="movie" value="111final7.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="scale" value="exactfit" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#000000" />'
+ '<embed src="111final7.swf" quality="high" scale="exactfit" bgcolor="#000000" '
+ 'width="800" height="550" name="111final7" align="top"'
+ 'play="true"'
+ 'loop="false"'
+ 'quality="high"'
+ 'allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"'
+ 'type="application/x-shockwave-flash"'
+ 'pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">'
+ '<\/embed>'
+ '<\/object>';
document.write(oeTags); // embed the flash movie
} else { // flash is too old or we can't detect the plugin
var alternateContent = 'Alternate HTML content should be placed here.'
+ 'This content requires the Macromedia Flash Player.'
+ '<a href=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/>Get Flash</a>';
document.write(alternateContent); // insert non-flash content
}
// -->
</script>
<noscript>
// Provide alternate content for browsers that do not support scripting
// or for those that have scripting disabled.
Alternate HTML content should be placed here. This content requires the Macromedia Flash Player.
<a href="<A href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/">Get">http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/">Get Flash</a> 
</noscript>
</td>
</tr>
</Table>
</body>
</html>

```
