# Swf's transparent on mac **URL:** \ **Category:** Uncategorized\ **Created:** [July 9, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfs-transparent-on-mac/25106 "2003-07-09T15:28:18Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 10\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![swift7777](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/87869e/32.png) [@swift7777](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/swift7777)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfs-transparent-on-mac/25106/1 "2003-07-09T15:28:18Z")
I’m trying to stay as cross platform as possible with my site, but can’t get the background transparent in i.e. on my imac, is there a tag for transparent like the color tags, #FFFFF, also I once found a tut on how to publish with out the flash border, but can’t find it again. thanx 4 any help swift.🔗 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 9, 2003, 3:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfs-transparent-on-mac/25106/2 "2003-07-09T15:54:24Z")
[http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/wmode.htm](http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/wmode.htm) ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 12:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfs-transparent-on-mac/25106/3 "2003-07-10T00:26:47Z")
thanx for reply kax, but that wont work on a mac, worx fine on pc, which is great for 90%, but I need cross platform, If there is no fix, then I’ll ave to do a bit of head scratching. swift.:toad: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfs-transparent-on-mac/25106/4 "2003-07-10T20:47:49Z")
thanx 4 your reply I think? Its a client job, that requires the site to look the same crossplatform, not a personal preference and please tone down your responces all the admin will here about it. swift.🥚 ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfs-transparent-on-mac/25106/5 "2003-07-10T21:24:52Z")
lets keep our preferences to ourselves shall we… I have seen macs… they used to be crap… but now they are quite good. I would still go with a PC but thats personal preference. Anyways… I have no idea how to solve your problem swift… very sorry -Aditya :thumb: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 10, 2003, 9:26pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfs-transparent-on-mac/25106/6 "2003-07-10T21:26:43Z")
nah i under stand i am deleting it now i just never liked Mac it causes so many problems can result in a whole lot of headaches sometimes things work beautifal in xp but never work on mac i remember trying to make a flash for my teach as a class project and the only computers they had were imacs he tryed playing it and it crashed his computer. He gave me a F because of that. i am still pissed at macs for that certian reason. Flash and Macs are like mixing Pitbulls and shi-tzus. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 12:48am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfs-transparent-on-mac/25106/7 "2003-07-11T00:48:52Z")
no problem, thanx 4 trying 2 help, I’m an avid pc fan 2, but most clients get on your case about crossplatform this, crossplatform that, what can you do. laterz, swift:bandit: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 4:16pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfs-transparent-on-mac/25106/8 "2003-07-11T16:16:21Z")
yeah you got a point. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 6:12pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfs-transparent-on-mac/25106/9 "2003-07-11T18:12:44Z")
well that technique on above link _does_ work for mac OSX … How stuck are you for having the lowest content show thru on an HTML page ? couldn’t you just ‘emulate’ html stuff on level 0 and have your _flashy_ stuff load above that (levels 1++) … loaded swf’s have NO background and would work all arround … ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 11, 2003, 8:29pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swfs-transparent-on-mac/25106/10 "2003-07-11T20:29:44Z")
thanx 4 reply, Yeah that’s close to what I actually did, as much as I love flash, I wish they would tackle some of the small bugs, and make the publisher a bit more robust. Ended up putting the swf into an html page in dreamweaver and porting it out that way. I don’t know about the OSX answer, my mac test-bed is running OSX and the trans-background still doesn’t work. thanx again. swift.:block: