# HTML button/link to POST vars to Flash?

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**Created:** [June 17, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-button-link-to-post-vars-to-flash/229420 "2007-06-17T01:08:14Z")\
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**Post date:** [June 17, 2007, 1:08am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/html-button-link-to-post-vars-to-flash/229420/1 "2007-06-17T01:08:14Z")

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Hello!

Here is something I assume is relatively simple but have never bothered to find out -  
I’m not finding the answer anywhere!

All I am trying to do is this:

Have a thumbnail image acting as a button - sitting on my HTML page.

When the user clicks it, the button uses the POST method to send a specified variable.

I think I can handle the variable from there using javascript - which will talk to my embedded swf.

Can anyone point me in the right direction? 🙂