I’m currently working on a site with the wonderful Hong Vo from Namaste Interactive that has an embedded flash video object on the home page. This site also has a horizontal drop-down menu. All was great until one of the drop down lists became long enough to overlap the flash video. Apparently, when embedding a flash video into an html page the embed code automatically puts the flash video on top of everything else. I could not for the life of me get the menu to lay behind the video no matter what I tried.
It was one of those “little problems” that was eating away my entire morning and most of my patience! ;o) In sadness, I discovered several forum discussions in which, apparently, it was agreed that there was simply nothing to be done.
Thankfully, I was stubborn and continued to dig further (I don’t give up easily!) and found this discussion, which contained a simple solution, which I will summarize for you:
- Wrap your flash content in a div
- Add to your object tag
- Set wmode=”transparent” in the embed tag
- Use css to set the position and z-index for your div (don’t set negative z-index values as it will make your flash disappear)
The CSS
#flash {
position: relative; /*or absolute*/
z-index: 0;
}
The XHTML
<div id="flash">
<object … >
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<embed … wmode="transparent">
</object>
</div>
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