Activate control

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You might have notices these tooltips in Internet Explorer lately, due to a legal case with Microsoft about using ActiveX controls. It appears an all active content such as Flash and videos and makes your website appear like it's not working.:

• Press SPACEBAR or ENTER to activate and use this control
• Click to activate and use this control

The work-around

Here's a quick JavaScript code you can use to get around this issue. Place the following code at the end of your HTML page just before the </body></html> tags:

<script language="Javascript">
theObjects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < theObjects.length; i++) {
theObjects[i].outerHTML = theObjects[i].outerHTML;
}
</script>

See also

• JavaScript Snippets
• Flash

External links

• For an official Microsoft solution, try: http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/workshop/author/dhtml/overview/activating_activex.asp
• For a more detailed solution, here's Adobe/Macromedia's fix: http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=7c29e252