[surferboy]

I am designing some web pages with Dreamweaver that use pop-up menus at the top. At the top, I have the pop-op navigation bar, and just below it I have a table that will hold my content. When the table with content has regular text in it, the pop-up menu works just fine, but if I put a flash movie in the content area, the pop-up menu does not work. The drop down menus site "behind" the flash content. I assume there is some way to set a priority so that one element sits in front of the other.

Here is an example of a working drop down menu.

And, Here is the exact same page, but instead of text in the content area, there is a flash file. Note that when you hover over the Sports menu, the submenus that drop down are hidden behind the flash file.

Can anyone lend me some advice on how to fix this? I assume it may take some hand coding?

Thanks so much.

[surferboy]

OK, after some reading I figured out the issue. One work-around is to make the flash file set on a transparent backbround using the wmode parameter. Problem is- it works in just about every browser except Safari. Very annoying. How do we tell Apple to fix this?

I took down the second link I used in the above post because it has sensitive information. But, thanks for reading these posts. I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has encountered these issues and if there are any good workarounds for Safari?

[Mooga2]

Hey hey,

I didn't find the (swf) on the site, but then again... I've had this issue and know the problems.

After much of my own research, giving your Flash the following parameters will allow it to work beautifully in Firefox and IE. It will blink in Safari, but your menus are still very usable.

<object classid="clsid27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="747" height="178">

<param name="movie" value="../ima/homepage.swf">
<param name=quality value=high>
<param name="wmode" value="opaque">
<param name="menu" value="false">

<embed src="../ima/homepage.swf" width="747" height="178" quality=high pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/shockwave/download/index.cgi?P1_Prod_Version=ShockwaveFlash" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="opaque" menu="false"></embed>
</object>

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Specifically use the param name middle values, wmode and menu.

If the Safari blinking continues to plague you and your audience enough to change, I would recommend going for the UDM drop-down menu. It supposedly does not have the aforementioned issues.

Later on!
- Moo!

[surferboy]

Thanks for checking. I actually took the swf off the site once I figured out the issue, because it has sensitive informtation. The issue is making the swf transparent with wmode. Like you said, it works with everything except Safari.

What is UDM?

[Mooga2]

Google, dude.

http://www.brothercake.com/site/products/menu/

Ultimate Drop Down Menu (UDM) is a fully-featured and accessible DHTML menu, that provides useable content to all browsers - including screenreaders, search-engines and text-only browsers. Released in January 2004, UDM was the world's first fully-featured and accessible DHTML menu!

Later on!
- Moo!