How to get flash object appear behind navigation?

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How to get flash object appear behind navigation?

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I have a small flash movie in the top of my content area and I notised that my (horizontal style navigations) submenu-buttons will appear underneath the movie. How can I make it the other way around, so flash would stay behind and dont block the navigation?

I tried adding z-index to navigation css but could not get it right.
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Re: How to get flash object appear behind navigation?

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You probably need to add:

   

within your object tags, and add:

    wmode="transparent"

to your embed tag.

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Re: How to get flash object appear behind navigation?

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Sorry but where do I need to add those? I'm new to flash.

I have this code in my content area, so does that wmode="transparent" go somewhere in there?

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{object src='uploads/images/intro.swf' height='120' width='400' bgcolor::#ffffff' alt='Download Flash Player'} 
What about that other one, does it go somewhere in the function.swfobject.php?
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Re: How to get flash object appear behind navigation?

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Using that tag you would do this in the tag, like the background color...

wmode::transparent
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Re: How to get flash object appear behind navigation?

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Unfortunatly i have the same problem, i've been searching a lot but it hasn't worked out for me so far:( Hope someone can help me out here...

I use global content blocks to show swf's . To do so, I'll place a tag in my content like
{global_content name='Flash01'} the global content block itself has the following code :
{object src='images/flash/flash_01.swf' height='388' width='577' class='flashplayer' }




In some post (also on the adobe site) I read that the fix should be a easy trick, simply like this:
1. Add the following parameter to the OBJECT tag:



2. Add the following parameter to the EMBED tag:

wmode="transparent"


I've tried to put these parameters in different area's in the code, however I cant get the dropdownmeneu appear in front of the swf yet. The flash dominates  :-[

Hope one can tell me how to exactly put the parameters in the code so the dropdownmenu will be visible...

Thanks for reading this post :)
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Re: How to get flash object appear behind navigation?

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If  you  look  at  the  Help  for  the  object  tag  you  will  see  some  parameters  it  takes  just  like  I  posted  above  with  ::  between  the  'name'  of  it  and  the  'value'...

Hope I said that slow enuf...

name="wmode" value="transparent"

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wmode::transparent
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Re: How to get flash object appear behind navigation?

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You are so right , I'll use your information, couse my "invention" causes some real bad validation errors I;ve noticed :-[

Thanks for the patience!
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