# Flash Banner is Covering Up My Drop-down Menus - Suggestions?

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-banner-is-covering-up-my-drop-down-menus-suggestions/264246>\
**Category:** web dev\
**Created:** [June 24, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-banner-is-covering-up-my-drop-down-menus-suggestions/264246 "2008-06-24T11:58:49Z")\
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**Author:** ![stina](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a88e57/32.png) [@stina](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/stina)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 11:58am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-banner-is-covering-up-my-drop-down-menus-suggestions/264246/1 "2008-06-24T11:58:49Z")

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This is just a general question, so depending on the answer, I might need to come back for some more help. Anyway, I have created a javascipt horizontal drop-down menu at the top of my page and under that is a rotating banner created in flash. It looks good until you actually try to look at the submenus, because the banner ends up covering the drop down menus. I’ve included a picture so you can exactly what I’m talking about.

My question: does flash always “hover” above everything else on a webpage? Or do you think it could be the way that I coded the hmtl/javascript? I’m wondering if it would just be better to create the drop down menus in flash. Would that solve the problem?

I’m sure there a bunch of answers to this, but I don’t know what to begin asking because I’m pretty new at all of this. Any help would be great! Thank you!

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**Author:** ![jpearson311](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/977dab/32.png) [@jpearson311](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jpearson311)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 5:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-banner-is-covering-up-my-drop-down-menus-suggestions/264246/2 "2008-06-24T17:48:15Z")

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You can try using the z-index property of CSS. If that doesn’t work, make it in flash.

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**Author:** ![djheru](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/djheru/32/3190_2.png) [@djheru](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/djheru)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 6:54pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-banner-is-covering-up-my-drop-down-menus-suggestions/264246/3 "2008-06-24T18:54:45Z")

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I think if you use the z-index and set the wmode of the flash to transparent, it should be ok

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**Author:** ![koolkrasher](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/c6cbf5/32.png) [@koolkrasher](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/koolkrasher)\
**Post date:** [June 24, 2008, 7:02pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/flash-banner-is-covering-up-my-drop-down-menus-suggestions/264246/4 "2008-06-24T19:02:15Z")

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i ran into a similar problem a few months back and what djheru said is what i did. just make the movie transparent and wmode transparent in you script and it should be fine.