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I'm trying to overlap an absolute positioned div box in front of a flash object. I applied wmode="opaque" It works for firefox but not for IE8.

<style type="text/css">
#absolute{background-color:blue; height:100px; width:100px;
position:absolute; top:30px;}
</style>
<body>
<div id="absolute"></div>

<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="100" height="100">
  <param name="movie" value="test.swf" [B]name="wmode" value="opaque"[/B]>
  <param name="quality" value="high"[B][B] name="wmode" [/B]value="opaque">[/B]
  <embed src="test.swf" quality="high" [B]wmode="opaque"[/B] pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="100" height="100"></embed>
</object>
</body>

Please help me! This is a crucial piece of my CSS puzzle.

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Dat0,

I think you will find that the HTML format is as follows :-

<object .....>
.....
<param name="wmode" value="opaque">
.....
<embed ..... wmode="opaque" .....>
</object>

With regard to the value of wmode, it may be worth noting that, according to Adobe ...
wmode - Possible values: window, opaque, transparent. Sets the Window Mode property of the Flash movie for transparency, layering, and positioning in the browser.

  • window - movie plays in its own rectangular window on a web page.
  • opaque - the movie hides everything on the page behind it.
  • transparent - the background of the HTML page shows through all transparent portions of the movie, this may slow animation performance.


If opaque doesn't work in IE, then try transparent.

Airshow

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Thank you. I tried this code and it now works for IE8!.... but still have problems on IE6. Any ideas?

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Dat0,

I know that IE6 can handle wmode=transparent. I advised (also on Daniweb) on wmode for this site and the layering certainly works in IE6 (I just tried it). Maybe you could take a look at the HTML/CSS and see if there's something different from yours.

If you Google "wmode" then you will find all sorts of reports of problems with wmode. Sometimes it's FF-ok-IE-bad and sometimes the other way round. Complete solutions are rarely reported.

Ultimately, you may need to consider a redesign that allows your .swf to be the topmost layer, which is its natural behaviour in all browsers AFAIK.

Sorry I can't be of more help.

Airshow

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