Side nav popup menu over flash

[beachshooz]

Has anyone successfully made a side nav popup menu work over a flash animation. Here is my client's homepage. They were working fine until I put a flash animation in. In Netscape, the popup menus work fine when the flash animation has finished. In Explorer, they don't work at all. I think it must be an index or layering issue but since I didn't write the hugely long script that makes the popups work, I cannot find where to set the index at something other than 0.

The page I am working on:

http://www.harveygarcia.com/net_results/htmltester/index.html

Any help is appreciated.

[Gollum]

Your problem (in IE at least) is that flash, java, and any other plug-in type technology are given separate window handles to output to and these windows are always placed above the main browser window. The content inside the flash window is not part of the main browser document and so you can never have any part of the document sitting on top of a flash window, no matter how high its z-index is.

The typical ways to get around this problem are:

1. Design your page layout so that this problem doesn't happen.

2. Move the left (right, top, bottom or whatever) edges of the flash just far enough to get out of the way.

3. Hide the flash control while you have your menu popup up.

[beachshooz]

Thanks for telling me the facts. It saves me loads of time trying to figure it out.

Thank you

[fredmv]

http://www.dotnetjunkies.com/weblog/jking/posts/488.aspx

[beachshooz]

Thanks Fredmv. I will try this

[binkyboo]

http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/wmode.htm

In case someone needs a simple solution to this problem.