You are right about the base path being the html, so you should get to your css by passing in the complete relative path, so: '../path_to_css/cssfile.css' when the html is in 'somefolder' en the css is in 'path_to_css' folder
-----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- Van: flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com [mailto:flashcoders-boun...@chattyfig.figleaf.com] Namens sebastian Verzonden: zaterdag 17 april 2010 23:53 Aan: Flash Coders List Onderwerp: Re: [Flashcoders] reading a css from "www"? sweet thanks Benny, this replacement method worked! yaay! btw, as far as i can tell, the flash file tries to load the files relative to the path of the current URL, and not the path relative to the SWF itself... so if if the HTML file is in: http://mysite.com/somefoloder/index.html and you load: ('file.css'); then it will look in: http://mysite.com/somefoloder/file.css even if the swf is being loaded from: http://mysite.com/flash/flashfile.swf If I am wrong, and the path is relative to the swf, then I am completely confused as to why i have to use full URL paths and I cant just type "file.css" and get it to load when the swf and the css file are actually stored on the server from the same location... Best, Seb. Benny wrote: > You could use the url from which your swf is loaded, replace the filename of > the swf by that of the css. > > In your main movie (from top of my haead, i.e. not tested ;-) use something > like: > > var cssFullURL:String = this.loaderInfo.url.replace(/thecallingfile\.swf > /,"cssFile.css"); > trace(cssFullURL); > > _______________________________________________ > Flashcoders mailing list > Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com > http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders > _______________________________________________ Flashcoders mailing list Flashcoders@chattyfig.figleaf.com http://chattyfig.figleaf.com/mailman/listinfo/flashcoders