# What am I doing wrong in embedding SWFObject?
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-in-embedding-swfobject/265551
**Category:** programming
**Created:** [July 10, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-in-embedding-swfobject/265551 "2008-07-10T04:55:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@mikerz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mikerz)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2008, 4:55am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-in-embedding-swfobject/265551/1 "2008-07-10T04:55:05Z")
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Mikerz.com
(some meta stuff im not showing, here)
Flash Goes Here
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any ideas? Ive been trying to figure it out, but im a bit of a noob at js…
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### Author:  [@brianmanden](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/brianmanden)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2008, 9:56am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-in-embedding-swfobject/265551/2 "2008-07-10T09:56:18Z")
Hi and welcome to the forums ! 😉
I tested your script here …there is nothing wrong with your code but you may want to tidy it up a bit. IE you got 2 starting tags for the head section (also - no ending tags for body and html and some weird characters before your doctype) ?! Indent your blocks of code - it really helps to get a better overview of the code !
Take a look at your reference to src="./swfobject/swfobject.js" - is it correct ?
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### Author:  [@mikerz](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mikerz)
#### Post date: [July 10, 2008, 5:19pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/what-am-i-doing-wrong-in-embedding-swfobject/265551/3 "2008-07-10T17:19:36Z")
hey thanks for the reply, the code I posted was pretty messy because I cut and pasted from the full html… it actually did have the proper tags.
Note: I had a working HTML when I began, but IE totally screwed up loading my SWF so I tried to start over again ( it would load a part of my preloader, and then say swfobject is undefined… ).
I ended up going through the SWFObject docs, and used the code generator for a static embed. That still didn’t work, so I changed the swfobject path to an absolute one. I ran the flash player uninstaller, and ran the installer. Still no fix.
I checked it in safari and FF, and it worked- except that the alignment was fugly ( fullbrowser & fullscreen options ), so I fixed THAT with a CSS Style;
[SIZE=5]LONG STORY SHORT:[SIZE=3] [/SIZE][/SIZE][SIZE=3]( also kinda-sorta cliffs )
[/SIZE]
I found out my IE was using flash player 7.0 inexplicably.
:sigh:
ran the IE installer directly from IE rather than adobe’s executable, and it worked fine.