Can I wrap an <object> tag inside an <a> tag?

[Alan Silver]

Hello,

I have an <objecttag that is used to display a Flash file. I would
like the whole Flash file to be a link. The obvious thought would be to
do this...

<a href="http://www.url.com"><object blah....>
</object></a>

....but this doesn't work.

Any ideas how to do this? I would rather do it in the HTML if I can. I
don't want to have to modify the Flash file if possible.

Thanks

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[Rik Wasmus]

On Thu, 15 May 2008 21:50:58 +0200, Alan Silver
<al*********@nospam.thanx.invalidwrote:

Hello,

I have an <objecttag that is used to display a Flash file. I would
like the whole Flash file to be a link. The obvious thought would be to
do this...

<a href="http://www.url.com"><object blah....>
</object></a>

...but this doesn't work.

Any ideas how to do this? I would rather do it in the HTML if I can. I
don't want to have to modify the Flash file if possible.

Hmmm. You can try what happens if you position the ancher over the object
instead of around it (absolute positioning). I doubt it will work 100%
though, it may even depend on UA's implementation of Flash.
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[Stanimir Stamenkov]

Thu, 15 May 2008 20:50:58 +0100, /Alan Silver/:

I have an <objecttag that is used to display a Flash file. I would
like the whole Flash file to be a link. The obvious thought would be to
do this...

<a href="http://www.url.com"><object blah....>
</object></a>

...but this doesn't work.

Any ideas how to do this? I would rather do it in the HTML if I can. I
don't want to have to modify the Flash file if possible.

You may try:

* Make sure you don't have any elements in the Flash which take
user input (mouse clicks, keyboard stokes);
* Apply 'wmode' [1] parameter with value of 'opaque' or
'transparent' to the object.

Alternatively you may try making the whole Flash object an active
link in the Flash object itself - you have to be able to produce the
Flash object yourself with that one.

[1] http://www.adobe.com/go/tn_12701

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Stanimir

[Alan Silver]

In article <op***************@metallium.lan>, Rik Wasmus
<lu************@hotmail.comwrites

>Hmmm. You can try what happens if you position the ancher over the
object instead of around it (absolute positioning). I doubt it will
work 100% though, it may even depend on UA's implementation of Flash.

Thanks for the suggestion, but the end code is to be published for
others to add to their sites, and I can just see that this is going to
fail miserably!

Thanks anyway, any other suggestions.
Alan

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[Alan Silver]

In article <g0**********@registered.motzarella.org>, Stanimir Stamenkov
<s7****@netscape.netwrites
<snip>

>You may try:

* Make sure you don't have any elements in the Flash which take user
input (mouse clicks, keyboard stokes);
* Apply 'wmode' [1] parameter with value of 'opaque' or 'transparent'
to the object.

That was my first attempt (after the plain old <objectinside the <a>
approach), but it didn't work.

>Alternatively you may try making the whole Flash object an active link
in the Flash object itself - you have to be able to produce the Flash
object yourself with that one.

I tried that, but FireFox gave a security warning when I clicked on the
movie. That's why I was hoping to do it in HTML.

Out of interest, I'm puzzled as to why I got a security warning, as I
seem to remember having these sorts of actions inside Flash movies
before, and not getting warnings. Any idea?

Thanks for the reply. Any other suggestions?
Alan

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Alan Silver
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