# How to play movieclip using a html menu?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-play-movieclip-using-a-html-menu/282699>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [February 25, 2009, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-play-movieclip-using-a-html-menu/282699 "2009-02-25T11:41:27Z")\
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**Author:** ![lullfoolz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c37758/32.png) [@lullfoolz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/lullfoolz)\
**Post date:** [February 25, 2009, 11:41am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-play-movieclip-using-a-html-menu/282699/1 "2009-02-25T11:41:27Z")

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Hi, everyone,

I’m a newbie here having problem combining flash swf and a html menu.

I’m trying to create a website with a flash movie embedded in the homepage.  
I will like construct buttons in html (with javascript?) to load movieclips in the embedded movie.

For example, when I mouse over the ‘About’ button, a movieclip in the embedded swf will start playing. When I mouseout, the movieclip will stop playing.

I can’t do the entire site in flash as the homepage is the only page involving flash. The rest of the pages will be in html involving a lot of CMS.

I have searched the forums and I can’t find what I need. Any help directing me to the right tutorials will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance 🙂