# How to "properly" center Flash content after using the Flash detection template

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-properly-center-flash-content-after-using-the-flash-detection-template/216953
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [February 21, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-properly-center-flash-content-after-using-the-flash-detection-template/216953 "2007-02-21T22:12:43Z")
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### Author: ![insultcomidog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/ac91a4/32.png) [@insultcomidog](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/insultcomidog)
#### Post date: [February 21, 2007, 10:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/how-to-properly-center-flash-content-after-using-the-flash-detection-template/216953/1 "2007-02-21T22:12:43Z")

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Up till recently I’ve been putting my Flash content in tables that have been centered.

After using the Flash detection template html file that Flash 8 generates I can no longer use my method of centering. Is there method of centering my Flash content without using some radical CSS coding?

Here’s the html code for my index file:

```auto

<!-- saved from url=(0013)about:internet -->
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1" />
<title>navigation</title>
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!--
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// Globals
// Major version of Flash required
var requiredMajorVersion = 8;
// Minor version of Flash required
var requiredMinorVersion = 0;
// Revision of Flash required
var requiredRevision = 0;
// the version of javascript supported
var jsVersion = 1.0;
// -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
// -->
</script>
<script language="VBScript" type="text/vbscript">
<!-- // Visual basic helper required to detect Flash Player ActiveX control version information
Function VBGetSwfVer(i)
  on error resume next
  Dim swControl, swVersion
  swVersion = 0
  
  set swControl = CreateObject("ShockwaveFlash.ShockwaveFlash." + CStr(i))
  if (IsObject(swControl)) then
    swVersion = swControl.GetVariable("$version")
  end if
  VBGetSwfVer = swVersion
End Function
// -->
</script>
<script language="JavaScript1.1" type="text/javascript">
<!-- // Detect Client Browser type
var isIE = (navigator.appVersion.indexOf("MSIE") != -1) ? true : false;
var isWin = (navigator.appVersion.toLowerCase().indexOf("win") != -1) ? true : false;
var isOpera = (navigator.userAgent.indexOf("Opera") != -1) ? true : false;
jsVersion = 1.1;
// JavaScript helper required to detect Flash Player PlugIn version information
function JSGetSwfVer(i){
    // NS/Opera version >= 3 check for Flash plugin in plugin array
    if (navigator.plugins != null && navigator.plugins.length > 0) {
        if (navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"] || navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash"]) {
            var swVer2 = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash 2.0"] ? " 2.0" : "";
              var flashDescription = navigator.plugins["Shockwave Flash" + swVer2].description;
            descArray = flashDescription.split(" ");
            tempArrayMajor = descArray[2].split(".");
            versionMajor = tempArrayMajor[0];
            versionMinor = tempArrayMajor[1];
            if ( descArray[3] != "" ) {
                tempArrayMinor = descArray[3].split("r");
            } else {
                tempArrayMinor = descArray[4].split("r");
            }
              versionRevision = tempArrayMinor[1] > 0 ? tempArrayMinor[1] : 0;
            flashVer = versionMajor + "." + versionMinor + "." + versionRevision;
          } else {
            flashVer = -1;
        }
    }
    // MSN/WebTV 2.6 supports Flash 4
    else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("webtv/2.6") != -1) flashVer = 4;
    // WebTV 2.5 supports Flash 3
    else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("webtv/2.5") != -1) flashVer = 3;
    // older WebTV supports Flash 2
    else if (navigator.userAgent.toLowerCase().indexOf("webtv") != -1) flashVer = 2;
    // Can't detect in all other cases
    else {
        
        flashVer = -1;
    }
    return flashVer;
} 
// If called with no parameters this function returns a floating point value 
// which should be the version of the Flash Player or 0.0 
// ex: Flash Player 7r14 returns 7.14
// If called with reqMajorVer, reqMinorVer, reqRevision returns true if that version or greater is available
function DetectFlashVer(reqMajorVer, reqMinorVer, reqRevision) 
{
     reqVer = parseFloat(reqMajorVer + "." + reqRevision);
       // loop backwards through the versions until we find the newest version    
    for (i=25;i>0;i--) {    
        if (isIE && isWin && !isOpera) {
            versionStr = VBGetSwfVer(i);
        } else {
            versionStr = JSGetSwfVer(i);        
        }
        if (versionStr == -1 ) { 
            return false;
        } else if (versionStr != 0) {
            if(isIE && isWin && !isOpera) {
                tempArray = versionStr.split(" ");
                tempString = tempArray[1];
                versionArray = tempString .split(",");                
            } else {
                versionArray = versionStr.split(".");
            }
            versionMajor = versionArray[0];
            versionMinor = versionArray[1];
            versionRevision = versionArray[2];
            
            versionString = versionMajor + "." + versionRevision; // 7.0r24 == 7.24
            versionNum = parseFloat(versionString);
            // is the major.revision >= requested major.revision AND the minor version >= requested minor
            if ( (versionMajor > reqMajorVer) && (versionNum >= reqVer) ) {
                return true;
            } else {
                return ((versionNum >= reqVer && versionMinor >= reqMinorVer) ? true : false );    
            }
        }
    }    
    return (reqVer ? false : 0.0);
}
// -->
</script>
</head>
<body bgcolor="#666666">
<!--url's used in the movie-->
<a href="http://www.suniljohn.com/index.html"></a>
<!--text used in the movie-->
<script language="JavaScript" type="text/javascript">
<!-- 
var hasRightVersion = DetectFlashVer(requiredMajorVersion, requiredMinorVersion, requiredRevision);
if(hasRightVersion) { // if we've detected an acceptable version
    var oeTags = '<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"'
    + 'width="712.5" height="590"'
    + 'codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab">'
    + '<param name="movie" value="navigation.swf" /><param name="quality" value="high" /><param name="bgcolor" value="#cccccc" />'
    + '<embed src="navigation.swf" quality="high" bgcolor="#cccccc" '
    + 'width="712.5" height="590" name="navigation" align="middle"'
    + 'play="true"'
    + 'loop="false"'
    + 'quality="high"'
    + 'allowScriptAccess="sameDomain"'
    + 'type="application/x-shockwave-flash"'
    + 'pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">'
    + '<\/embed>'
    + '<\/object>';
    document.write(oeTags); // embed the flash movie
  } else { // flash is too old or we can't detect the plugin
    var alternateContent = 'Alternate HTML content should be placed here.'
      + 'This content requires the Macromedia Flash Player.'
       + '<a href=http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/>Get Flash</a>';
    document.write(alternateContent); // insert non-flash content
  }
// -->
</script>
<noscript>
    <p align="center"><img src="noflashcontent.jpg" width="713" height="590"></p>
    <p align="center">This content requires the Macromedia Flash Player.
        <a href="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflash/">Get Flash</a> </p>
</noscript>
</body>
</html>

```
