Julie, You need to use a web-safe color in order to render the color similarly in both browser and Flash movie. #3864A0 is *not* web safe. Web safe colors are any combinations with the colors listed in pairs: #FF3300, #FFFFFF, #3366CC, and so on. You can see a chart of them (sorted by hue) at http://www.lynda.com/hexh.html.

You can find a lengthy article discussing why even some web-safe colors might still not render identically at Webmonkey (http://hotwired.lycos.com/webmonkey/00/37/index2a.html?tw=design), but my guess is that switching to the nearest web-safe equivalent of your chose color will solve your problem.

The web safe palette should be built into your Flash as the default palette (it is in Flash 4). You can also find it in the Adobe Photoshop palette set.

Laura Hamilton http://www.viviente.com

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