Title: Rin Header Problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016
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# Rin Header Problems
* Resolved [davidbabylon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidbabylon/)
* (@davidbabylon)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rin-header-problems/)
* I am using the theme Rin.
* In place of my old header, images/header.jpg , I wanted to put in a flash header,
images/header1.swf. When I switched out the header graphic for the flash header
all I got was a white box. Here is the code for my header graphic;
* #masthead {
**background: url(images/header.jpg)**; width: 750px; height: 135px;
margin: 0 auto; padding: 0;
* border-top: 1px solid #b8e4e7;
border-right: 1px solid #86c9cf; border-bottom:
2px solid #00527f; border-left: 1px solid #86c9cf; }
* Any suggestions or ideas on what I’m doing incorrectly?
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* [Class](https://wordpress.org/support/users/class/)
* (@class)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rin-header-problems/#post-248818)
* I assume you mean ‘images/header1.swf’ in the code above.
View the source of
the page from your browser, is the path to the header image correct?
* Thread Starter [davidbabylon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidbabylon/)
* (@davidbabylon)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rin-header-problems/#post-248822)
* Yes, I meant ‘images/header1.swf’, I apologize.
The path seems to be correct.
Please, if you have a moment take a look, and tell me if I’m wrong.
* Here is the direct link to the header in the theme file; [http://www.davidbabylon.com/wp-content/themes/rin/images/header1.swf](http://www.davidbabylon.com/wp-content/themes/rin/images/header1.swf)
* [ifelse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ifelse/)
* (@ifelse)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rin-header-problems/#post-248824)
* You can’t use an object (i.e. the SWF file) as a background using CSS as only
image files are accepted. Unfortunately, what you’ll need to do is mark it up
specifically by using the object tag.
* Thread Starter [davidbabylon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidbabylon/)
* (@davidbabylon)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rin-header-problems/#post-248825)
* Sorry for my ignorance. I’m still getting the hang of CSS, but I don;t understand
* > “markup it with the object tag”
* Could you explain it a bit?
* Thanks for your help.
* [ifelse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ifelse/)
* (@ifelse)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rin-header-problems/#post-248826)
* You’ll need to modify the header.php file and replace the `` section with:
* `
* Thread Starter [davidbabylon](https://wordpress.org/support/users/davidbabylon/)
* (@davidbabylon)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rin-header-problems/#post-248829)
* Excellent!
* Here is the good news. Your advice worked perfectly! Thank you so much!
* Some bad news – please see what happened to the rest of my site. 🙁
* [http://www.davidbabylon.com](http://www.davidbabylon.com)
* Is there something wrong with the theme I’m using or is it what I’m doing that
caused the chaos that just ensued on my website?
* [ifelse](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ifelse/)
* (@ifelse)
* [20 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/rin-header-problems/#post-248832)
* Unfortunately, it looks like I made some incorrect assumptions. Try the following:
* Change `