Can my movie be under a DHTML drop down menu?

programming flash
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I have an html website. I have a dhtml dropdown menu bar. I want my animated flash movie positioned just below this, but when the user tries the dropdown menu bar the flash movie BLOCKS the menu options…how can I fix this? Are there any z-index param fixes to make it go behind?

Thanks,
DanR5

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Not that I know of. Flash always seems to position itself at the highest z-index, I have tried plenty of times, even professional sites that I have seen have this same problem, so I am pretty sure you can’t do it.

Not 100% sure on this though, maybe someone else knows a way.

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Thanks for your reply,

I did find this solution in the Flash MX bible but it’s only for Windows browsers: <param name=“wmode” value=“transparent” />

It worked in this case but I need a fix for the Mac too so I’ll keep looking. Thanks again.

DanR5

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I have the same problem, is there anyway to set the z-index of the movie to place it beneath the HTML? I tried setting the style configuration in a .css and id of the <EMBED> object, but it did not work. :trout:

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Sorry, My last reply striped out the param line of text:

param name=“wmode” value=“transparent”

it has to do with WMODE set to transparent in your publish settings in Flash MX.

This only works for 32 bit window browsers 95/98/ME/Nt/2000/XP.

DanR5

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That method only works in IE on Windows that I have noticed.

With AOL 8.0 switching to Netscape now, it is a pretty unreliable method. Netscaping usage will either be tied or even more than IE usage after that.

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Yes, I agree. It stinks that nothing is consistent. I found this too about the problem:

www.macromedia.com/support/fireworks/ts/documents/pop-up_menus_and_active_con.htm

Later