Flash overlapping drop down menus

[Tek Jansen]

Our horizontal DHTML drop down menu drops behind our Flash sub-header that sits immediatly below. The problem is fixed in IE using "wmode"..."transparent"... but firefox is not cooperating.

Any suggestions? I won't do the menu in flash as I need the menu viewable by web spiders... also setting a high z-index doesn't seem to work either. I'm assuming the flash export automatically sets it's z-index on the fly as being +1 the highest z-index on the page. Perhpaes there is a different way to export the flash?

Any thoughts or suggestions would be much appreciated.

[TiGGi]

wmode should work on FF also, try this:

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="100" height="100">
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<param name="movie" value="flash.swf" />
<param name="quality" value="high" />
<embed src="flash.swf" quality="high" wmode="opaque" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100" height="100"></embed> 

Also make sure u got latest version of FF!

[Tek Jansen]

Thanks for the suggestion. Quick question though...

how would ..."wmode"... "opaque" make it so it didn't drop behind the flash? I thought "transparent" made it so that it didn't matter because it was transparent. IE only understands this. Yeah FF is fully updated.

[vikysaran]

	<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
  <tr>
    <th scope="col">
	<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="100%" height="100%">
<param name="wmode" value="opaque" />
<param name="movie" value="file.swf" />
<param name=[COLOR="RoyalBlue"]"quality"[/COLOR] value="high" /></object>
<embed src="file.swf" quality="high" wmode="opaque" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="550" height="200"></embed>
	&nbsp;</th>
  </tr>
</table>

Enjoy

[vikysaran]

<table width="100%" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
<tr>
<th scope="col"><embed src="File.swf" quality="high" wmode="opaque" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="" height=""></embed>
&nbsp;</th>
</tr>
</table>