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**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [February 19, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-url-into-main-swf-like-html-frames/13924 "2003-02-19T21:11:21Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 9\
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**Author:**  [@waffe](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/waffe)\
**Post date:** [February 19, 2003, 9:11pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-url-into-main-swf-like-html-frames/13924/1 "2003-02-19T21:11:21Z")
I know this can be done in html but flash I don’t know.
I want to stay on the same url page and load another url in my flash movie. You can do this with SWF’s, you have a main movie and then you can load a second swf into the main movie. Can this be done with a main swf and load in a url page into the swf?
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 12:05am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-url-into-main-swf-like-html-frames/13924/2 "2003-02-20T00:05:14Z")
No, HTML pages cannot be loaded INTO Flash. The only HTML Flash supports is HTML formatted text such as bold, italics, underline, font face, color, size, and links.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 4:15am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-url-into-main-swf-like-html-frames/13924/3 "2003-02-20T04:15:49Z")
Thanks:chinaman:
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 9:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-url-into-main-swf-like-html-frames/13924/4 "2003-02-20T09:42:34Z")
could just pop it into a frames page, or activate a url with a target of \_self.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 5:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-url-into-main-swf-like-html-frames/13924/5 "2003-02-20T17:28:12Z")
Actually if targetting a specific frame the target would be “framename” as you must assign your frame a name tag and target that.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 6:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-url-into-main-swf-like-html-frames/13924/6 "2003-02-20T18:06:32Z")
but, you also have a choice of the four fabs too, lost…
\_blank - creates a blank window
\_parent - sends it to the parent window
\_self - loads it in itself
\_top - can’t remember, don’t use that often enough to care
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 6:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-url-into-main-swf-like-html-frames/13924/7 "2003-02-20T18:18:28Z")
Yes, I know, but you said to throw it in a frames page, and I was stating that if you wanted the page to load in a different window from the flash movie, you would have to target the framename, and not any of the default targets 🙂
And \_top breaks out of frames and targets the main page.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 6:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-url-into-main-swf-like-html-frames/13924/8 "2003-02-20T18:19:47Z")
> \*Originally posted by Random Hero \*
> \*\*could just pop it into a frames page, or activate a url with a target of \_self. \*\*
I ment one or the other. Sorry I wasn’t clear on it.
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**Author:**  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\
**Post date:** [February 20, 2003, 6:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/load-url-into-main-swf-like-html-frames/13924/9 "2003-02-20T18:23:38Z")
Oh sorry, I didn’t notice the \or\ there :hangover:
My mistake.