Re: FLASH: right up to edge

[Jeff Talbot]

Hi all,

just to add my 2p to this thread as this is a subject very dear to my

heart! I have spent many hours recently struggling with this problem.

So far most of the answers have already been provided, although (as

pointed out by John in an earlier post, when the thread was "gap in

ie4.5 on mac") this will not work in IE 4.5 Mac. The only solution is

to remove the <OBJECT> code for the movie, which creates its' own set

of problems.


This latter approach is the one I have taken for my own website (see

earlier posts) and have not received any posts from IE users

indicating a problem. Does this mean that they were using plug-ins

rather than ActiveX controls? Anyone else on the list using this

technique? I would really love some feedback on this as it means I

will have to use a redirect script and duplicate many sections of my

site if this is the case - something I really want to avoid.


BTW, even using a frameset, tables, and nomargin settings, there is an

alignment problem in Netscape which can cause undesirable effects. Liz

Castro (author of HTML4 Visual Quickstart Guide) tells me that this is

a known bug and has no workarounds :(


TIA, Jeff


> Date: Wed, 11 Aug 1999 14:59:50 -0400

>

From: "John Brzys" <jbrzysperceptron [dot] com>

> Subject: Re: FLASH: right up to edge

>

>> > Having recently purchased Flash 4 I am disappointed that I cannot show a

>> >  movie in html snapped to the top left of a page. There always seems to

> be a

>> >  border around the edge. For Example please see my home page

>> >  http://www.dnhdesign.com   I would like the red in this page to be

> right up

>> >  against the top and left edges, is there a way around this problem??

>> >

>> In Any HTML you cannot place something in the top left corner unless you

> make

>> use of layers in DHTML or the margin commands availible in 4.0 browsers.

> Try

>> putting some of this in the body tag

>> marginwidht="0" marginheight="0" leftmargin="0" topmargin="0"

> rightmargin="0"

>> bottommargin="0"

>> that should close the gap, for those with 4.0 browsers anyway.

> This will only line up the page for people using IE

> netscape does not recognize margin tags in the body.

> I would suggest using framesets and tables to eliminate the white border.

>

> jb



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