# Have any of you had this problem?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/have-any-of-you-had-this-problem/185838>\
**Category:** random\
**Created:** [April 17, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/have-any-of-you-had-this-problem/185838 "2006-04-17T00:39:53Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![bobby\_hamilton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@bobby\_hamilton](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bobby_hamilton)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 12:39am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/have-any-of-you-had-this-problem/185838/1 "2006-04-17T00:39:53Z")

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Hi All,

OK, just recently on one of my home computers when I view a site with flash content on it, all of the flash elements on the page show up “highlighted” with a dark box outline around them. When you hover over the boxes a tooltip appears saying “click to activate and use this active X control” This is so annoying! Has anyone else experienced this? if so, how the heck do you get rid of it! Thanx for any help!

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**Author:** ![kirupa](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/kirupa/32/11616_2.png) [@kirupa](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/kirupa)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 12:43am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/have-any-of-you-had-this-problem/185838/2 "2006-04-17T00:43:03Z")

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If this is happening to content you created, you can try the fix mentioned here: [http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/flash\_fix.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/flash_fix.htm)

For all other sites, you can’t get rid of it if you are using IE. The change is a result of a lawsuit between MS and Eolas ☹

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**Author:** ![bobby\_hamilton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@bobby\_hamilton](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bobby_hamilton)\
**Post date:** [April 17, 2006, 1:18am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/have-any-of-you-had-this-problem/185838/3 "2006-04-17T01:18:54Z")

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ohhhh noooooo really… thats terrible! So how long should IE react this way? Thanx for letting me know!

PS\>\> does your above solution work for those people with javascript turned off?

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**Author:** ![bobby\_hamilton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/ea666f/32.png) [@bobby\_hamilton](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/bobby_hamilton)\
**Post date:** [April 18, 2006, 5:51pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/have-any-of-you-had-this-problem/185838/4 "2006-04-18T17:51:14Z")

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Hey Guys and Gals,

Im trying to implement the above solutions in one of my sites. I have two flash files being loaded into the site (one right on top of the other) and the code im using gives me a fatal error when I run the page. Any advice as to what i am doing wrong would be greatly appreciated! Thanx!

```auto
<script type="text/javascript" src="flashobject.js"></script>

<div id="flashcontent1" style="width: 752px; height: 60px">
<div id="flashcontent2" style="width: 752px; height: 700px">

<script type="text/javascript">
var fo = new FlashObject("header.swf", "animationName", "752", "60", "7",
"##FFC329");
fo.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "sameDomain");
fo.addParam("quality", "high");
fo.addParam("scale", "noscale");
fo.addParam("loop", "false");
fo.write("flashcontent1");
</script>

<script type="text/javascript" src="flashobject.js"></script>
var fo = new FlashObject("index3.swf", "animationName", "752", "700",
"7", "##FFC329");
fo.addParam("allowScriptAccess", "sameDomain");
fo.addParam("quality", "high");
fo.addParam("scale", "noscale");
fo.addParam("loop", "false");
fo.write("flashcontent2");
</script>

```