# Flash player detection

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-player-detection/1637>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [May 9, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-player-detection/1637 "2002-05-09T03:03:20Z")\
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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 3:03am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-player-detection/1637/1 "2002-05-09T03:03:20Z")

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Hi,  
Could you post a tutorial on how to code for Flash player detection in HTML. And if there is no player detected then to use the GIF file instead of SWF file.  
thanQ  
regards  
Kash

PS. I think your tutorials are really good.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 4:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-player-detection/1637/2 "2002-05-09T04:35:28Z")

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Thats a complicated process. I think someone posted something about it in the Flash Actionscript Forum. Try checking in there, I believe there was a link to an explaination about the whole process.

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**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [May 9, 2002, 5:14pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-player-detection/1637/3 "2002-05-09T17:14:48Z")

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dosent kirupa have a tutorial fo that

version = getVersion();  
flash\_ver = version.split(",");  
ver = flash\_ver[2];  
if (ver \> 29) {  
gotoAndStop (3);  
} else {  
gotoAndStop (2);  
}  
stop ();

but ya i think that will work