A transparent background is useful when you want a character to stand over top of some external content, such as a web page. The Character Builder Flash output always uses a transparent background, however this is not always apparent when embedding Flash content into a non-Flash container such as HTML.

Note first that a transparent background is not possible with some older versions of the Firefox browser.

You can place the OBJECT tag within an "absolutely positioned div".

Then, to make the background transparent, set the 'wmode' parameter to 'Transparent' by adding the following parameter to the OBJECT tag in HTML:

If your HTML contains a call to AC_FL_RunContent() rather than an OBJECT tag, then add the following two parameters: