Fix “Click to activate and use this control”

Internet Explorer 7 has the annoying problem not to activate a flash movie until you click it. Most webmasters don’t know how to get rid of the “Click to activate and use this control”-problem. There is however a simple workaround available. It uses a simple Javascript-function, to echo the embed code with Javascript.

The Javascript part

Make a file named iefix.js and add the following code into it:

function fix(theText){
document.write(theText);
}
That’s all. This will make a function which will echo the text.

The HTML part

First of all, include the Flash into your (X)HTML file, between the two <head> tags.

<head>
<!– your title, meta, etc. –>
<script src=”iefix.js”>/script>
</head>

Now we have to change the code to embed the flash file. If you have this code:

Change it into this:

That’s it

Job’s done. I made example to show the result.
The first one is the normal code, the second should display properly in Internet Explorer.

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Farrhad Says :
1
great help
Righteous_Trespasser Says :
2
Nice one … did you find this on Ozzu?
admin Says :
3
@R_T
I saw it before, but I also saw your post on Ozzu.
When I noticed that most people didn’t know about this workaround, I decided to write about it on my blog

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