Flash Covers Popup Submenus

Jonibean · Jonibean

I have been struggling with the navigation system on my site for some time now.
We have a flash movie across the top, and my original plan was to have the
navigation bar with popup menus on top of that, but the flash covers up the
menus. We have been trying to work around this by putting all the navigation
into the flash file, but it has other limitations as well (the popup menus
can't go down very far unless that flash is as tall as they are).

However, I was looking at some other sites today and found one on Encana that
does have submenus appearing above the flash. On my machine (mac), it only
works after the flash is done it's movie, but my client tells me that on his
machine (Windows IE), it works the whole time.

How have they done this? I thought the flash always went on top of everything?

Any help on this would be fantastic.

confused;

Jonibean · Jonibean

Oops, I forgot to attach the link (to the site that works properly)
[url]http://www.encana.com/operations/resource_plays/index.html[/url]

Murray *TMM* · Murray *TMM*

All Active content on a page will always rise to the top, so to speak,
including Flash, certain form elements, Java applets, and Active X controls.
This means that each of these will poke through layers. There is not a good
cross-browser/platform reliable way to solve this issue, but if you can be
confident in your visitors using IE 5+ or NN6+, then you can use the Flash
wmode parameter.

MM articles:
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/flash_top_layer.htm[/url]
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/support/flash/ts/documents/wmode.htm[/url]

This is a curious thing -

<script language="JavaScript" type="text/JavaScript">
if ( navigator.appName == "Microsoft Internet Explorer" ) {
document.write('<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01
Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/loose.dtd">');
}
</script>
<html>

So the only browser you want to be in Standards mode is IE?

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"Jonibean" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Oops, I forgot to attach the link (to the site that works properly)
> [url]http://www.encana.com/operations/resource_plays/index.html[/url]

Jonibean · Jonibean

Actually that's not my code. I didn't do the Encana site, I'm just trying to
figure out how they did that, because the menus work even though there is flash
on top.

What would that code be for? I haven't really gotten into 'standards mode', so
I don't know what that means (yet).

Murray *TMM* · Murray *TMM*

That code determines if the browser you are using is IE and if it is, it
writes a doctype which (presumably) puts IE into Standards mode. If it's
not, it writes nothing, i.e., the browser renders in Quirks mode. (ew)

I suppose, as a result, the page *is* broken in FF - the left menu options
are almost completely masked.

To read about doctype switching, Google that term. I think there's an essay
at alistapart.com.

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"Jonibean" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Actually that's not my code. I didn't do the Encana site, I'm just trying
> to
> figure out how they did that, because the menus work even though there is
> flash
> on top.
>
> What would that code be for? I haven't really gotten into 'standards
> mode', so
> I don't know what that means (yet).
>

AndyPiddock · AndyPiddock

Try adding this:

<param name="WMODE" value="Transparent">

Jonibean · Jonibean

Thanks. I have done that, but I had to make my navigation separate from my
photo bar, as the photos weren't transparent. Putting a transparent flash over
top of another flash file seems to have its own quirks. For one thing it runs
through the whole photo bar movie before showing the navigation at all.

Oh well!

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