Title: 2.5 and Flash embed – padding errors?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# 2.5 and Flash embed – padding errors?

 *  [reb_76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reb_76/)
 * (@reb_76)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-and-flash-embed-padding-errors/)
 * I’m trying to use the flash embed here: [http://sofcc.info/sofcc](http://sofcc.info/sofcc)
 * The player is displaying shrunken down about 100 px from where it should be. 
   I’ve tried every bit of coding I know – the xml file is correct, the dimensions
   are typed in correctly – it appears to be forcing padding of 100px on the right
   and bottom.
 * Any ideas at all?

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 *  [mechx1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mechx1/)
 * (@mechx1)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-and-flash-embed-padding-errors/#post-747850)
 * If we are talking about the player in the left sidebar, I’d start by taking the
   paragraph tags out `<p></p>` from around your object. If you need to position
   it, you’ll want to give it a DIV you can position relative within the box.
 *  Thread Starter [reb_76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reb_76/)
 * (@reb_76)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-and-flash-embed-padding-errors/#post-748023)
 * I’ve got it in the excerpt field and wordpress seems to be automatically wrapping
   it in < p> tags…I don’t have it aligned any particular way.
 * Here’s the actual excerpt code:
 *     ```
       Baptism in Mexico...
   
       <object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" width="275" height="241" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,40,0"><param name="src" value="http://sofcc.info/sofcc/baptism2.swf" /><embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="275" height="241" src="http://sofcc.info/sofcc/baptism2.swf"></embed></object>
       ```
   
 *  [mechx1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mechx1/)
 * (@mechx1)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-and-flash-embed-padding-errors/#post-748034)
 * You lost me on the Excerpt field. I know what an excerpt is in the WordPress 
   world, but I don’t see how it applies here. If you look at this code in your 
   theme index, you should be able to remove the paragraph tags
 *  Thread Starter [reb_76](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reb_76/)
 * (@reb_76)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-and-flash-embed-padding-errors/#post-748055)
 * This particular theme won’t display the player in the front page of the site 
   unless I use the excerpt field. For some reason it won’t let me embed directly.
 * If I use the excerpt field, I can make the player appear – but it wraps it in
   those < p> tags no matter what I do. The code I posted is exactly what I pasted
   in my post. Once it’s published, WordPress adds in the tags.
 * I just can’t figure it out.
 *  [mechx1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mechx1/)
 * (@mechx1)
 * [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-and-flash-embed-padding-errors/#post-748058)
 * Have you taken a look at [this plugin?](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/kimili-flash-embed/)
   I haven’t used it myself, but I have seem it in several installations since I
   started on this forum. I HAVE used the SWFObject it is built on a number of times,
   it’s quite stable

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 * Last activity: [18 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/25-and-flash-embed-padding-errors/#post-748058)
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