Hi guys,

I have a problem with one of my designs at the moment. Here's the problem:

I have a flash game in the middle of a page. However, the site navigation has dropdown menus that go on top of the flash. Now, the navigation works if I use "wmode = transparent" or "wmode = opaque" in the flash code. Yet, there is another problem: In Internet Explorer (I'm running version 7) the arrow keys "up" and "down" in most flash games will not work properly. Instead, they will make the page scroll up and down, even if the flash file has focus. This situation does not exist if I don't define a "wmode" (meaning that wmode = Window). However, I have some things that need div tags to be displayed OVER a flash presentation, and it just annoys me that Internet Explorer (only) will not allow this without messing it up.

Sorry I don't have an example right now, because everything is on localhost. However, if someone doesn't understand what I mean I can provide more info or create a dummy example.

Thanks to everyone who has taken the time to read this or help me.

 

 

 

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Have you tried position : absolute or relative and a z-index?

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Unfortunately, that doesn't work because once a Flash file uses "wmode=window" it's as if the flash file has its own window. Basically, everything will be underneath it. Currently I'm looking for a workaround that prevents the page from scrolling... without much luck.

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use php to redirect ie 7 users to a page that will work - theres a topic in the forum on how to do. It's in my list of topics i think

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Ah one of the many problems when combing flash and regular HTML content. On my firends site where he was using lightbox and a flash menu the lightbox effect would disrupt the flash render. It was ugly. I'm sorry I have no idea how you could remedy it.

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