# Why do I have to activate the menu (with a click)

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-do-i-have-to-activate-the-menu-with-a-click/204684>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [October 22, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-do-i-have-to-activate-the-menu-with-a-click/204684 "2006-10-22T15:40:04Z")\
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**Author:** ![Dennis\_gull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dennis\_gull](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Dennis_gull)\
**Post date:** [October 22, 2006, 3:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-do-i-have-to-activate-the-menu-with-a-click/204684/1 "2006-10-22T15:40:04Z")

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Sometimes when im on my site I have to click on the menu once before it starts to work and at some other peoples computers when im on IE the whole flash file get inside a frame and when I hold over it, it says activate flash. Is it because I use wmode? I have to use wmode because I have lightbox (a javascript) so if I dont use wmode the flash will show over it.  
If you dont know what lightbox is you can click [here](http://www.huddletogether.com/projects/lightbox2/) to see an example.

any idea how to fix this?

Edit:  
Nvm found out how to fix it, stupid me didnt use google :glasses:

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**Author:** ![Dennis\_gull](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e274bd/32.png) [@Dennis\_gull](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Dennis_gull)\
**Post date:** [October 25, 2006, 4:40pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/why-do-i-have-to-activate-the-menu-with-a-click/204684/2 "2006-10-25T16:40:26Z")

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[quote=anif;1983233]These will solve your problem

[http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/flash\_fix.htm](http://www.kirupa.com/developer/flash8/flash_fix.htm)  
[http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/[/quote]](http://blog.deconcept.com/swfobject/%5B/quote%5D)

I used another script but its probably based on the same code, it looks like this:

```auto

objects = document.getElementsByTagName("object");
for (var i = 0; i < objects.length; i++)
{
    objects*.outerHTML = objects*.outerHTML;
}

```

anyways I still got a litte problem but its not in IE and it doesnt show the “click here to activate” text. But sometimes when im in mozilla the menu doesnt work when I hold over it until I click on it once… Does anyone know why that is?