Flash focus in Firefox and chrome
Recently i encountered a problem which was hard finding a solution in the internet: setting the focus to the flash object in firefox and chrome when loading the website. I tried using this idea: <body onload="window.document.FlashName. focus ();"> <object name="FlashName" ... /> <embed name="FlashName" ... /> </object> </body> but while this works in IE it's not working in firefox at all. I also tried detecting the browser and focusing the embed instead of the object in firefox, but turns out that the embed can't take focus easily. Eventually i've encountered this post: http://www.asserttrue.com/articles/2006/11/17/firefox-and-flash-swf-selection-and-focus-problems which solved this issue. In order to focus flash in both firefox and IE, there're 2 things need to be done: 1. add wmode="opaque" to the object and to the embed 2. address the flash by name and not by ID or separating the code for IE and F