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How to get flash object appear behind navigation?
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 7:35 pm
by JiiPee
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.
Re: How to get flash object appear behind navigation?
Posted: Mon Dec 28, 2009 8:11 pm
by Nullig
You probably need to add:
within your object tags, and add:
wmode="transparent"
to your embed tag.
Nullig
Re: How to get flash object appear behind navigation?
Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2009 9:51 pm
by JiiPee
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?
Code: Select all
{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?
Re: How to get flash object appear behind navigation?
Posted: Thu Dec 31, 2009 6:13 pm
by Dr.CSS
Using that tag you would do this in the tag, like the background color...
wmode::transparent
Re: How to get flash object appear behind navigation?
Posted: Tue Jan 05, 2010 11:28 am
by snowball
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

Re: How to get flash object appear behind navigation?
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 1:47 am
by Dr.CSS
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"
=
wmode::transparent
Re: How to get flash object appear behind navigation?
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:29 pm
by snowball
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!