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How many times have you asked yourself the following question: "How does that animation take up every pixel of space in the browser?" The answer lies in using percent widths instead of pixel widths when publishing.
To maximize the animation in a browser, you can increase the pixel width of your animation to suit the size of the browser. While increasing the pixel size would work, not everyone who views your animation has the same resolution you have. Because of the varying environments your animation will be viewed in, different people will still see your animation in a different size. You will learn how to display the animation maximized to the size of your browser in this tutorial.
Publishing In PercentsTo ensure that the size of the animation scales to the size of the browser automatically, you will need to publish your animations by setting a percent value for the width and height. The following instructions will explain how to setup your animations for a percent width and height.
[ entering percent values under the HTML tab
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Removing MarginsWhen you use Flash to publish your HTML file, Flash creates a generic HTML file with the code required to display the animation. Additional information such as the margin values are not added. When a Web page is displayed in a browser, there is an artificial space created near the edges of the browser for spacing between the browser and the Web page. The following image displays what I am referring to:
Different browsers such as Internet Explorer and Netscape have different margin widths. Because you want to maximize the animation and "Take up every pixel of space available!", you don't want the margins to interfere with what your visitors see. You want to remove the margins. To remove margins, delete the <body> tag and place the following line in its place:
<body topmargin="0" leftmargin="0">
Now that you know about margins, you have learned all there is to know about making an animation full screen. You should note that Flash will not skew your animation to fit your browser. If your animation's size is such that it can't be made to fit evenly in your browser, Flash will not stretch your animation horizontally to fill in the extra space, etc. It will stretch until it reaches the edges of a browser, table, or another boundary you place the animation into.
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