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OK, why does IE mess with me so much.

Look at my homepage in IE. Anyone know why the flash piece on the homepage stretches the way it does? I set size parameters for it.

Anyone?

www.shopvsc.com

[bigred]

Well i figured it out. It need a little IE hack since IE sucks and reads everything backwards. Heres the hack

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"
codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"
width="615" height="75">
<param name="movie" value="YOUR SWF FILE">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<!--[if !IE]> <-->
<object data="YOUR SWF FILE"
width="615" height="75" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="menu" value="false">
<param name="pluginurl" value="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer">
FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).
</object>
<!--> <![endif]-->
</object>

I guess you need to add the data tag. Who knows. Thanks IE for being so crappy.

[Rick H.]

The problem is this (i think):

1. The name of your SWF file is "header".
2. There is a class id in the object tag referencing "header".
3. That object seems to be getting confused with the header reference in your css template file - 800 some pixels.

Try changing the swf to a different file name and be sure the word "header" is nowhere in the object tag for the swf.

Rick H.

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Yeah, I thought that too. So I was testing it with or without it. Still had the same effect. Who knows. I read an article on the IE hack referencing the data tag compared to idclass.

I tried it and it worked.

[Rick H.]

Hmmm....As a simple test using local versions of your files, i got the width right simply by changing "header" to "header1" in the object tag and the width was correct. Of course you would have to adjust the rest of the code to accomodate the change.

Rick H.

[Rick H.]

...therefore your solution may have worked simply because the code "id=header" is no longer in that object tag.

:-)

Rick H.