Comments on: SWFObject, IE and Dynamic Content (a problem)

By: bretto

bretto — Wed, 21 Jul 2010 19:51:51 +0000

A better method of fixing this (if you don’t have access to the swfobject.js file) is you dynamically create a set of nested divs and tell swfobject to replace the inner one.

By: mattb

mattb — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:23:32 +0000

HTML isn’t working here… here’s a pastebin of my fix: http://pastebin.com/V0hP5Ywj

By: mattb

mattb — Thu, 06 May 2010 01:21:09 +0000

I had this problem with swfobject.js 2.2, and fixed it by doing the following.

Changed this:

aa.outerHTML=’”+af+”";

to this:

$(aa).replaceWith(‘”+af+”");

By: nico

nico — Wed, 24 Feb 2010 15:23:23 +0000

same problem

//el.outerHTML = ” + par + ”;
$(el).replaceWith(” + par + ”);

problem still present

SWFOBJECt dont load on IE8 (no error message but flash not loading)

By: Tri Vuong

Tri Vuong — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:25:27 +0000

I’m using swfobject 2.2 and I have the same problem. I tried to apply the fix that you guys are talking about there which is

Replace this line

//el.outerHTML = ” + par + ”;

with this line
jQuery(el).replaceWith(” + par + ”);

However, it still not working for me. Any suggestion?

By: Graeme

Graeme — Sun, 24 Jan 2010 07:19:07 +0000

Thanks, your solution worked for me

Comment out line 436 and put in a new line after with

$(el).replaceWith(” + par + ”);

Was getting error in IE only and now I don’t

Thanks!!

By: Woolie

Woolie — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 01:21:34 +0000

I looked and (thankfully) still have the uncompressed version sitting here locally. It has the following line commented out:

$j(el).replaceWith(‘’ + par + ‘’);

Try adding the ‘j’ (i.e. $j instead of $)

Also, the line number at which I have that is 436 and the version of the file is 2.2. So unless you have a newer version it seems like line 425 might not be the right spot.

Other than those two things, I’m not sure why it wouldn’t work.

By: rbiggs

rbiggs — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 00:22:48 +0000

Hey! I found the non-min version, replaced that line as you recommended and it did not work. What might i have done wrong?

By: rbiggs

rbiggs — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:38:16 +0000

(dang! I was hoping this blog software would simply render the HTML as text rather than strip it out. What I had written with the jquery replacement line was:

$(el).replaceWith(“[everything that you had for el.outerHTML]“), … line 425.)

Where can I find an uncompiled (non-min) version of the latest swfobject.js?

Thanks! (ron: ron_biggs@msn.com)

By: rbiggs

rbiggs — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:33:58 +0000

This really is awesome … and somewhat surprising that a new version of swfobject.js doesn’t take this problem into account.

One question: what would the new and improved (replaced) line look like? I’m guessing something like:

$(el).replaceWith(” + par + ”);

By: nwrman

nwrman — Thu, 26 Nov 2009 10:24:12 +0000

Awesome!, this article lead me to a solution for my problem.

Thanks!