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Customizing HTML publishing templates

If you're familiar with HTML, you can modify HTML template variables to create an image map, a text report, or a URL report, or to insert your own values for some of the most common Flash `OBJECT` and `EMBED` parameters (for Internet Explorer and Netscape Communicator/Navigator, respectively).

Flash templates can include any HTML content for your application, or even code for special interpreters such as Cold Fusion, ASP, and the like.

To modify an HTML publishing template:

1 | Using an HTML editor, open the Flash HTML template you want to change, located in the Macromedia Flash MX/HTML folder.
2 | Edit the template as needed. To use the default values, leave the variables empty.
| For information on variables supported in Flash, see the following table.
| For information on creating an image map or a text or URL report, or to insert your own values for `OBJECT` and `EMBED` parameters, see the sections for those topics, following this procedure.
3 | When you have finished editing the variables, save the template in the Macromedia Flash MX/HTML folder.
4 | To apply the template settings to your Flash movie, choose File > Publish Settings, select the HTML panel, and select the template you modified.
| Flash changes only the template variables in the template selected in the Publish Settings dialog box.
5 | Choose your remaining publishing settings, and click OK. For more information, see Publishing Flash documents.

The following table lists the template variables that Flash recognizes. For a definition of all the tags these variables work with, see Editing Flash HTML settings.

Parameter | Template Variable
--- | ---
`Template title` | `$TT`
`Template description start` | `$DS`
`Template description finish` | `$DF`
`Flash (SWF) movie title` | `$T1`
`Width` | `$WI`
`Height` | `$HE`
`Movie` | `$MO`
`HTML alignment` | `$HA`
`Looping` | `$LO`
`Parameters for OBJECT` | `$PO`
`Parameters for EMBED` | `$PE`
`Play` | `$PL`
`Quality` | `$QU`
`Scale` | `$SC`
`Salign` | `$SA`
`Wmode` | `$WM`
`Devicefont` | `$DE`
`Bgcolor` | `$BG`
`Movie text (area to write movie text)` | `$MT`
`Movie URL (location of movie URLs)` | `$MU`
`Image width (unspecified image type)` | `$IW`
`Image height (unspecified image type)` | `$IH`
`Image file name (unspecified image type)` | `$IS`
`Image map name` | `$IU`
`Image map tag location` | `$IM`
`QuickTime width` | `$QW`
`QuickTime height` | `$QH`
`QuickTime file name` | `$QN`
`GIF width` | `$GW`
`GIF height` | `$GH`
`GIF file name` | `$GN`
`JPEG width` | `$JW`
`JPEG height` | `$JH`
`JPEG file name` | `$JN`
`PNG width` | `$PW`
`PNG height` | `$PH`
`PNG file name` | `$PN`