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[Phoenixone]

Hi guys im trying to set the background property of a table to use a flash.swf file

how would i do it?

<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%" bgcolor="#320c0c" background="{$ImagesDir}/newheader.png">

please help

[PhilJ]

Not something I would recommend, pretty sure it can't be done in CSS alone.
You can try these links...
http://www.kirupa.com/forum/showthread.php?t=277976
http://www.andrewsellick.com/95/flash-movies-as-backgrounds

[Phoenixone]

why would you not recommend it? any specific reason?

here is what i did:
in the main css add the following:

.flashhead  {
position: fixed;
width: 100%;
height: 160px;
background-color:#660000;
}

then in your head.tpl file add this div tag:

<div class="flashhead">
<OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" 
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" 
WIDTH=1400 HEIGHT=160> 
<PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="{$ImagesDir}/your flash file"> 
<PARAM NAME=menu VALUE=false> 
<PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high> 
<PARAM NAME=wmode VALUE=transparent> 
<PARAM NAME=scale VALUE=noscale>
<EMBED src={$ImagesDir}/your flash file menu=false quality=high wmode=transparent scale=noscale WIDTH=1400 HEIGHT=160 TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash">
</EMBED>
</OBJECT> 
</div>

works for me