html - How do you use a flash object as a link?

Question

Is it possible to use a flash document embedded in HTML as a link?

I tried just wrapping the object element with an a like this:

<a href="http://whatever.com">
    <object ...>
        <embed ... />
    </object>
</a>

In Internet Explorer, that made it show the location in the status bar like a link, but it doesn't do anything.

I just have the .swf file, so I can't add a click handler in ActionScript.

Answer 1

You can use transparent div with same height and width over that object. And let javascript open your url on click action on that div.