If you would like to change the default ‘blue’ of your Flex movie as it preloads:

Select Project > Properties > Flex Compiler and under the Additional compiler arguments add ‘-default-background-color #yourcolour’. So if you want a plain white background it would look like:

-locale en_US -default-background-color #FFFFFF

If you need to position a background image at the foot of a page you will realise its pretty tricky to align it right at the bottom.

Add the following to your stylesheet and hey presto!

html {
min-height: 100%;
height: auto;
}

I have often come across the problem of a missing image when developing a site.

The solution is simple.

<img src=”image.gif” width=”100″ height=”100″ onerror=”this.src=’error.gif’;”>

If the correct image doesn’t exist the image named error.gif will be used instead.

Credit goes to Rob Gonda for this tip.

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