Centering an animated gif on a form - Where does the HTML go?

**krausr79** · 11-10-2016, 03:49 PM

I'm trying to display an animated gif in Access on a form. I did this by creating a webbrowser control and using VBA to change it's controlsource:

Me.WebBrowser1.ControlSource = "=" & Chr(34) & "C:\DisplayGifs" & temp & Chr(34) 'set the browser to the gif

Now I want it horizontally centered. So far I've tried creating HTML in a text file and saving it as .html:

<html><head></head><body><center><img src="C:\DisplayGifs\GifName.gif"></center></body></html>

This does what I want when I open it in a browser, but I don't know how to feed the HTML into the webbrowser control. I'm going to vary the gif programmatically, so I don't want to point the control at an HTML document somewhere.

**krausr79** · 11-11-2016, 08:22 AM

It's not my first choice, but I'm using an external html file that I overwrite before changing.

Sub OverwriteHTML(UseThis As String, WriteThis As String)
Open UseThis For Output As #1
Print #1, WriteThis
Close #1
End Sub

Call OverwriteHTML("C:\DisplayGifs\Page.html", "<html><head></head><body><center><img src=" & Chr(34) & "C:\DisplayGifs" & temp & Chr(34) & "></center></body></html>")
Me.WebBrowser1.ControlSource = "=" & Chr(34) & "C:\DisplayGifs\Page.html" & Chr(34) 'set the browser to the local page with gif

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