how to set up preloader on html page?

I have a .swf with my animation. Then I have another .swf that contains my preloader.

I haven't used preloaders before. I usually just publish my .fla to an html page and upload to my website. But if I have a preloader (another .swf), how would I go about setting that up on an html page?

You can't directly use flash to preload an HTML page if that's what you're asking.

Look into the Loader() class. Not knowing your actionscript version it's hard to give links to tutorials.

List of Tuts

Thanks. No, I didn't mean preloading an .html page. I mean I have my .swf page that I will publish to an .html page, but I also have a .swf that contains a preloader (for the .swf) in it. Not sure where that goes.

Off to check the link provided.