The Dread Flash Problem

Hi There,

My name is Britt and I just joined this site. I am a novice Web Designer/Coder and I am having a bit of a problem with Flash. I have a Flash movie embedded in my page and an HTML tab Menu. Unfortunately, the Tab menu keeps going behind the Flash. I have tried everything I can think of from making sure I save the swf in Windows Transparent, to putting an embed wmode="transparent" in the object to no avail.

It works just fine on a Mac. Everything goes where it is supposed to in both Safari and Firefox on my Mac. However, when we look at it in IE and Firefox on a PC, it keeps going behind.

Here the URL:

http://library.weber.edu/newWeb/

Does anyone have any helpful hints, suggestions, advice? I'm at my wits end here.

Sincerely,

Britta

It looks to me like the flash is doing exactly what its supposed to. You've set the z-index on the flash to 3 but haven't set the z-index on the menus (default to 0). Set a high z-index (higher numbers closer to the top) on the menu panel <ul> and that should fix the problem.

I have had this same issue, here's what I did ... Note the bold areas.

Hmmm, I tried both of your suggestions with no results. I think part of the problem is that my boss coded half of this page and I coded the other half and I'm not really sure what he did with the HTML Menu.

I will keep trying, but I appreciate all of your suggestions.

you also know that to set the z-index the position must be set to either relative or absolute right ... ?

Whoops, yeah I tried that too. Still nothing. Pooh!