# Flash passing info to javscript HELP

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**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 11, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-passing-info-to-javscript-help/165441 "2005-10-11T06:07:35Z")\
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**Author:** ![marcscrookedfin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/ecae2f/32.png) [@marcscrookedfin](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/marcscrookedfin)\
**Post date:** [October 11, 2005, 6:07am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-passing-info-to-javscript-help/165441/1 "2005-10-11T06:07:35Z")

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So I have a simple need. I want to have a button in flash call a javascript function that changes the css background image. Only for some reason it’s not working. I do know the javascript works, because I can put a html button that calls the function and the background image changes. A little help please!

here’s the code.

\<html\>  
\<head\>  
\<style\>  
body {  
background-repeat: repeat;  
background-position: center center;  
background-image: url(greencarpet.jpg);  
}  
\</style\>  
\<script\>  
\<!–  
function changeImage() {  
newImage = “url(redwallpaper.jpg)”;  
document.body.style.backgroundImage = newImage;  
}  
//–\>  
\</script\>  
\</head\>  
\<body\>  
\<object classid=“clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000” codebase=“[http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0](http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0)” width=“300” height=“300”\>  
\<param name=“movie” value=“backgroundchangeflash.swf” /\>  
\<param name=“quality” value=“high” /\>  
\<embed src=“backgroundchangeflash.swf” quality=“high” pluginspage=“[http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer](http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer)” type=“application/x-shockwave-flash” width=“300” height=“300”\>\</embed\>  
\</object\>  
\</body\>  
\</html\>

then this is the action asigned to my button:

on(press) {  
getURL(“javascript:changeImage()”);  
}

yet nothing works right! Please help!