# Text over movie?

**URL:** https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397
**Category:** flash
**Created:** [December 22, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397 "2003-12-22T12:43:15Z")
**Posts on this page:** 12
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### Author: ![pipeline\_chiq](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/cdc98d/32.png) [@pipeline\_chiq](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/pipeline_chiq)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 12:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397/1 "2003-12-22T12:43:15Z")

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I was just wondering if it was possible to put like, a block of text over a flash movie in front page…

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 12:45pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397/2 "2003-12-22T12:45:27Z")

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yes, put your text layer over your movie

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 1:05pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397/3 "2003-12-22T13:05:20Z")

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I tried, its a div layer that im trying to put over the flash movie … and its not workingg … =s

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 22, 2003, 1:18pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397/4 "2003-12-22T13:18:05Z")

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ok in html ! Did you try by putting you flash movie as background ?  
If not working why don’t you put your text in flash ?

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2003, 2:26am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397/5 "2003-12-23T02:26:37Z")

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Umm … well, there’s already a background and i dont want to put the text in flash? … is there annnyyy otherrr wayy … at all?.. :q:

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2003, 2:37am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397/6 "2003-12-23T02:37:31Z")

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well, if you put a dynamic text box over your movie and had it load an external TXT file, technically it wouldnt be getting the text from flash, and you could update it really easily (just a txt file to edit… wont have to go and rework the flash everytime you wanna update)

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2003, 2:40am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397/7 "2003-12-23T02:40:07Z")

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you coudl try this in the HTML also…  
\<script language=“JavaScript” type=“text/JavaScript”\>  
\<!–  
function MM\_reloadPage(init) { //reloads the window if Nav4 resized  
if (init==true) with (navigator) {if ((appName==“Netscape”)&&(parseInt(appVersion)==4)) {  
document.MM\_pgW=innerWidth; document.MM\_pgH=innerHeight; onresize=MM\_reloadPage; }}  
else if (innerWidth!=document.MM\_pgW || innerHeight!=document.MM\_pgH) location.reload();  
}  
MM\_reloadPage(true);  
//–\>  
\</script\>

\<div id=“Layer1” style=“position:absolute; left:37px; top:24px; width:370px; height:139px; z-index:1”\>\</div\>

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2003, 2:51am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397/8 "2003-12-23T02:51:19Z")

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i’ve tried z-index’s and they dont work… so i put the javascript in the \<body\> section of the page right? … coz that’s not working either…

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2003, 3:09am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397/9 "2003-12-23T03:09:17Z")

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i tend to put it in the \<head\> but it should work in the body also.  
Frontpage is annoying, i used it for many moons before going to dreamweaver which made life a lot more simple… and complex.

did you try chaning the z index number to a higher value?  
(ps dream weaver has a layer tool that you can just draw that sucker ontop of whatever you want)

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2003, 9:23am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397/10 "2003-12-23T09:23:36Z")

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hahah…Dreamweaver seems so intimidating to use, i am thinking of switching to dreamweaver thought, if i cant get it to work in front page…

As for the z-index, i tried … it doesnt work… unfortunately.

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 23, 2003, 10:09pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397/11 "2003-12-23T22:09:02Z")

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bear in mind that the preview in front page is NOT accurate. so just because it looks like its not working in the preview, doesn’t mean its not gonna work on your production box. If you want, post your page and ill draw the layer on for you.  
(im not able to post attachments, even though it says it is enabled… there is no BROWSE thing on the bottom of my screen as the FAQ says there is supposed to be)

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### Author: ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)
#### Post date: [December 24, 2003, 2:42am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/text-over-movie/38397/12 "2003-12-24T02:42:38Z")

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Nevermind… its okay … im trying to learn dreamweaver myself now… thanks you guys for helping anyway! 🙂