Linking to Flash

[Ash]

In my newest website I have made a splash page that you click to enter but it does not work is there any special script that you have to use when linking to flash.

This is the HTML I am using

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<a href="http://www.freewebs.com/Corrosionsblog/home.htm">
<img src="http://www.freewebs.com/corrosionsblog/other%20images/enter.swf" border="0" /></a>

[johneva]

Yep.

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<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="460" height="273">
            <param name="movie" value="Link%20to%20other%20site.swf">
            <param name="quality" value="high">
            <embed src="Link%20to%20other%20site.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="460" height="273"></embed></object>

Is the code that Dreamweaver uses for adding Flash animations to the page.

Though if you try validating your site it will come up with errors due to this code so there must be a better way to do it. But I am not sure how yet.

Also if you what to make it a link to somethig like the code you have used you need to put that in the Flash file by use of action script.
I could not get it to work anyother way, there might be an easyer way but I dont know it.

[Ash]

Cheers for the help.

[johneva]

Right well I have just made a new site and I have made it so it is a valid XHTML 1.1 and CSS.

I came accross a problem with inserting Flash and keeping it valid coding.

Well here is the answer check it out.

Link

[Ash]

That will become usefull. Thanks. Most recenly I made a website in college to hold My Flash E learning package and other things and that seemed to work fine.

[johneva]

Yeah it works ok using the same code that dreamweaver uses it just wont pass W3C validation.

Cos the embed tag is not valid XHTML.

http://validator.w3.org/