How to access an html element in flash?

Question

I have an html page with a flash movie embded in it, that flash movie contains a button. I want to pass the id of an element on the containing html page to the flash movie so that when the button is clicked, I get the text of that element in flash (i.e. innerHTML).

So, my question is basically two questions:

• How to pass something from HTML/Javascript to flash?
• How to access an element on the containing html page from flash? (What ActionScript code is needed to do that?)

Many thanks ...

Edit:

I found the answer to the first question (use Flash Vars), hope someone can help me with the other one.

Answer 1

See this StackOverflow Answer about the use of the ExternalInterface class in ActionScript.