# Transparent background

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparent-background/65261>\
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**Created:** [September 24, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparent-background/65261 "2004-09-24T14:19:44Z")\
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**Author:** ![Sim085](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/dfb087/32.png) [@Sim085](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Sim085)\
**Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 2:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparent-background/65261/1 "2004-09-24T14:19:44Z")

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Hi,

this is a simple question, but i don’t know how to answer it ☹ How can I make the background of my flash movie transparent??

Thanks to all in advance 🙂  
Sim085

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**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:** [September 24, 2004, 2:23pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparent-background/65261/2 "2004-09-24T14:23:07Z")

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You mean as in transparent with it overlaying an html webpage or do you mean as in an alpha transparency IN your flash file?

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**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:** [September 24, 2004, 3:01pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparent-background/65261/3 "2004-09-24T15:01:12Z")

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The first one, I am going to put the movie over HTML text, and so i need the background to be transparent!

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**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:** [September 24, 2004, 3:21pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparent-background/65261/4 "2004-09-24T15:21:42Z")

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I actually just did a tutorial on this yesterday, let me see if i can find the code for it. You code it int the html to load the Flash file as a layer, you don’t have to do anything special to the Flash file itself. You’ll need to insert this just after the beginning of the body tag.

> \<div id=“flashad” style=“position:absolute; left:0; top:120; width:10; height:0; z-index:1;”\>  
> \<object classid="clsid: D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"codebase=“[http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version6,0,29,0](http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version6,0,29,0)” width=“800” height=“250”\>  
> \<param name=“movie” value=“example.swf”\>  
> \<param name=“quality” value=“high”\>  
> \<param name=“wmode” value=“transparent”\>  
> \<embed src=“example.swf” width=“800” height=“250” quality=“high” pluginspage=“[http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer](http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer)” type=“appllication/x-shockwave-flash” wmode=“transparent”\>\</embed\>  
> \</object\>  
> \</div\>

Change the embedsrc to your file name and path, and change the dimensions to those of your flash file. Hope that helps.

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**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:** [September 24, 2004, 3:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/transparent-background/65261/5 "2004-09-24T15:39:43Z")

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Ok 😃 😃 😃 😃 😃

It worked just fine!

Thnak you for all your help, 10x  
sim085