Javascript substitution text

A new installation of flash node uses direct embedding to output the flash content, using the <object> and <embed> tags. That's fine for basic use but javascript methods have a number of advantages. In particular users who do not have flash and javascript will see some meaningful content in place of the animation, while a search engine such as Google will index the substitution content. To use javascript embedding you must download and install SWF Tools. For more details about using flash node with SWF Tools refer to this handbook page.

Flash node comes with a pre-configured substitution message which you can change on the flash node settings page. You also can customise this text for each flash node by opening the Advanced flash node settings section of the node editing form. You can use any mark up that is valid for the node's input format. If you want to revert a node to the site default text simply type !default as the substitution content for the node.

You can, if you wish, delete the substitution content. This might sometimes be useful if you are generating an item of flash content where long substitution text would break the page layout.