# Flash movie -- controlling visible area?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-controlling-visible-area/219702
**Category:** web dev
**Created:** [March 19, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-controlling-visible-area/219702 "2007-03-19T16:16:03Z")
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### Author: ![ZenBlender](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a4c791/32.png) [@ZenBlender](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/ZenBlender)
#### Post date: [March 19, 2007, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-movie-controlling-visible-area/219702/1 "2007-03-19T16:16:03Z")

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I would like to be able to control the visible area of a Flash movie. Let’s say the SWF is sized at 700x500. I need a way to set the object/embed tags to 700x500 and then put the whole thing in a container where I can control the visible area dynamically, without having to reload the page. I tried putting the SWF’s tags in a div and setting its min-width, min-height and overflow properties but in Firefox the results were inconsistent. I could get it to crop the Flash movie properly, but only with overflow:auto, which gives me some unwanted scrollbars.

What’s the best way to do this? Thanks so much! 🙂