# Probably really simple but
**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/probably-really-simple-but/25649
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**Created:** [July 15, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/probably-really-simple-but/25649 "2003-07-15T12:03:13Z")
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### Author:  [@mattty79](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/mattty79)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 12:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/probably-really-simple-but/25649/1 "2003-07-15T12:03:13Z")
I was just checking out this site www.sportsnet.ca and when the user rolls over the sport names, a flash menu drops down with transparency.
Just wondering how it shows transparency on top of the html?
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 2:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/probably-really-simple-but/25649/2 "2003-07-15T14:47:27Z")
I know of something that does something similar… you may have seen it. It loads an swf to play over an html page usually a funky advert. From what i remember it was a seperate program that you needed to buy, but i dont see why coz the final product was just a normal swf… in short i dunno. there was a link for it on [flashkit.com](http://flashkit.com) a while ago if you really want to track it down.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 2:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/probably-really-simple-but/25649/3 "2003-07-15T14:58:26Z")
well, i have been playing with some simliar techniques lately…and one that i have found is doing something like this…(this works on mac)
make you flash movie, and set some part of it to transparent…in your case the background to the drop down menu…
then when you put that movie on your html page…embed the flash movie into a layer…wherever you want.
then you have to add this little attribute in the flash object tag… 'wmode=“transparent”
and that should be it…oh yeah, but you have to set the layer to invisible, and set the behavior of some button to make that layer visible on rollover…
i havent tried this, but im thinking it would work. lemme know.
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### Author:  [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [July 15, 2003, 3:28pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/probably-really-simple-but/25649/4 "2003-07-15T15:28:16Z")
thanks for your help the wmode and transparent commands worked!!!