# Wmode="transparent" issue

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wmode-transparent-issue/235723>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [August 14, 2007, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wmode-transparent-issue/235723 "2007-08-14T09:11:45Z")\
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**Author:** ![glidealong](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/da6949/32.png) [@glidealong](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/glidealong)\
**Post date:** [August 14, 2007, 9:11am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/wmode-transparent-issue/235723/1 "2007-08-14T09:11:45Z")

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I have a combobox component in my flash movie and i have embedded it in a html file. This is the code i have used to have it embedded, so as to make the movie background transparent. Note the ‘wmode’ parameter which i have set to ‘transparent’.

```auto
<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
    <embed src="Listbox.swf" width="550" height="400" quality="high"
 pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"
 type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent"></embed>

```

Now i cant see any of the flash builtin components contained in the movie - be it a combobox component, button component or colorpicker component. All the other custom components that i created seems to work fine. But if i remove the ‘wmode’ parameter from the HTML code, all the components work just fine!!!