External HTML page embedded in HTML5 canvas document (Animate CC)

[Squire_Amanda]

On the main timeline, if you have an action set to go to an external html webpage that contains a form, is there a way for it to go back to main timeline once that form is submitted? Or is there an easy way to embed a form within the Animate CC HTML5 canvas document itself?

Any help on the matter would be greatly appreciated. I'm a beginning to coding so bare with me, I may need to be baby-stepped through the process.

[kglad]

you can add javascript to your form's submit button that opens (window.open or location.href) your canvas html page.

[Squire_Amanda]

Is there a way so that when you hit submit it will go to a certain frame within the timeline and not have it start at the beginning?

[kglad · Accepted solution]

one way to do that is to use a query string appended your url and then parse that in animate.

[Squire_Amanda]

How would you do that? I'm sorry this is well out of my comfort zones so I'm not sure what kind of query string to use.

[kglad]

for example, if your button uses:

location.href='yourhtml.html?goto=framelabel_56'

you could use:

this.stop();

this.gotoAndPlay(querySF(window.location.href));

function querySF(s){

return s.split("?")[1].split('=')[1];

}

[brade54617919]

How could I embed an external page in a movieclip called "container" Let's say google.com needs to go in my animate file sort of like an iframe. Can this be done?

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