Javascript – How to make flash movie to scale proportunatly to div width

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I have put together an example page detailing my problem

My website is going to have a main wrapper that is set to a max-width property for compatible browsers. It will stretch to 940px across at max. When scaled down I would like the swf to scale proportionately with it. Like an image with width percent applied. The flash movie has the dimensions of 940 × 360 pixels.

I can't seem to figure out the correct attributes to add to the embed tag to get it to do this.

I am currently using jquery flash embed, but am open to other options, though this is my ideal.

In the example I have set the flash background to black.

When resize the browser window the flash movie doesn't scale proportionately to the div, only the photo does, leaving a blank canvas (black), while the div height stays the same. I can't add a height value in the CSS.

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How do I make this scale correctly? Adding a noscale param only crops the image. The swf's height doesn't scale also.

All of my code can be viewed in the linked examples source.

Best Answer

This article will hopefully cover what you need: http://www.alistapart.com/articles/creating-intrinsic-ratios-for-video/. It's pure CSS too!

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