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**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 23, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keystrokes-dont-work-in-html/61949 "2004-08-23T16:38:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:**  [@provdes](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/provdes)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 4:38pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keystrokes-dont-work-in-html/61949/1 "2004-08-23T16:38:42Z")
Been working pretty hard on converting a flash presentation so I can use it my website portfolio.
The presentation used keystrokes to navigate instead of button so the presenter didn’t need to wave a mouse pointer all over the screen.
I have published my flash file to the web, embedded it in an html page and now the keystrokes don’t work.
Can anyone shed any light?
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 4:52pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keystrokes-dont-work-in-html/61949/2 "2004-08-23T16:52:23Z")
They don’t work at all?
Or they work after you set focus on the flash movie?
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 4:59pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keystrokes-dont-work-in-html/61949/3 "2004-08-23T16:59:35Z")
> [@claudio](#):
>
> They don’t work at all?
> Or they work after you set focus on the flash movie?
set focus?
When I export my file to swf and test it they keystokes work fine. When I open up the swf file from windows on its own - they work fine.
When I import the swf file into an html page and open it up - they dont work at all. :h:
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 5:04pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keystrokes-dont-work-in-html/61949/4 "2004-08-23T17:04:26Z")
Yes, set focus.
Try opening the html page, click on the flash movie and then test the keystrokes.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 5:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keystrokes-dont-work-in-html/61949/5 "2004-08-23T17:16:23Z")
> [@claudio](#):
>
> Yes, set focus.
> Try opening the html page, click on the flash movie and then test the keystrokes.
AH! Set Focus! Yes it now works! (who feels a bit dozey now :-/ )
Thank you.
Is there any coding way of bypassing this? (the movie is launced in a new window and without me putting a ‘play movie’ button in, the viewer would have no need to click on the page)
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 6:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keystrokes-dont-work-in-html/61949/6 "2004-08-23T18:03:56Z")
Yes, open the html document and find the _id_ parameter inside the \ tag.
Something like this:
```auto
```
Now, edit the tag:
```auto
```
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [August 23, 2004, 7:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/keystrokes-dont-work-in-html/61949/7 "2004-08-23T19:23:12Z")
Thats great.
I used this for the body copy though to get it to work:
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