Drop down menue issues.

[CFmonger]

Hello;
I wrote a cf / css dynamic menue. I am having 1 issue with it. I have a flash movie on the page, and when you mouse over the drop menue / nav, the menue goes behind the flash movie and makes the other links in the nav unusable. Is there a script of a code that will make the nav go over the animation and not behind it?

Thank you.
CFmonger

[Newsgroup_User · Accepted solution]

just make sure you have wmode attribute set to 'transparent' for your
flash movie.

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

[CFmonger]

Where does the wmode code go in my code?

My flash code:

<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase',' http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0','width','560',... ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase=" http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="560" height="154">
<param name="movie" value="flash/Home-Movie.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<embed src="flash/Home-Movie.swf" quality="high" pluginspage=" http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="154"></embed>
</object></noscript>

[CFmonger]

Ok, I figured out where the wmode goes, but it didn't work. here is my code now for my movie:

<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase',' http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0','width','560',... ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase=" http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="560" height="154">
<param name="movie" value="flash/Home-Movie.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="samedomain">
<embed src="flash/Home-Movie.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="samedomain" pluginspage=" http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="154"></embed>
</object></noscript>

Is there anyhting else that would work? I also tried putting in z-index into my css, and made one and used it in a <div> tag for the flash movie. None of this is working.

I am attaching my css, maybe you will see something I missed.

This is so frustrating. I thought maybe CF could help me fix this issue since the navs html is written in CF.

[sam2kin]

One thing you can do is fix your code where you are calling AC_FL_RunContent(....);

I see here is that you are specifying a variable src = "wmode" and another variable transparent = "flash/Home-Movie"

I had faced the same problem once. And what I remember is that I had to branch my code for IE and Firefox seperately... One supports wmode = transparent where as the other supports wmode = opaque.

Have a gr8 time 🙂

[CFmonger]

But the wmode isn't working. I fixed what you said, and it still isn't fixing the problem in just IE. Is my code wrong? is there a better way to make it work? This is what I changed it 2. I can write a cf script to sniff out browsers after, but this isn't fixing my problem.

<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase',' http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0','width','560',... ); //end AC code
</script><noscript><object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase=" http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="560" height="154">
<param name="movie" value="flash/Home-Movie.swf">
<param name="quality" value="high">
<param name="wmode" value="transparent">
<param name="allowscriptaccess" value="samedomain">
<embed src="flash/Home-Movie.swf" quality="high" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="samedomain" pluginspage=" http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="560" height="154"></embed>
</object></noscript>