Drop down menu hides behind flash object?

[Byron]

Hey,

I just noticed a little quirk in two different javascript drop-down
menus on two different sites:

On each site, the part of the menu that expands gets hidden behind flash
objects on the page.

Here's an example:

http://www.taedisonhs.org/success/studentWorks.asp

The menu is at the top of the page.

Is this a fact of life, or can it be fixed?

Thanks.

[Danny]

When positioning boxes, you want to consider 3 fellas, Select, Flash,
Applets, they all take the topmost z-index on the stack when overlapped
against, the way I've seen it worked-around is by stick them in an iframe
and the overlapper on the parent box of the iframe, or by just hiding it
with .style.visibility or .style.display upon overlapping. I think newest
version of mozilla/firefox/opera got it a bit fixed, but still on older
ones, not any different in IE.

Danny

On Thu, 14 Jul 2005 17:08:10 -0700, Byron <sp*******@dorrk.com> wrote:

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[Martin Honnen]

Byron wrote:

On each site, the part of the menu that expands gets hidden behind flash
objects on the page. Is this a fact of life, or can it be fixed?

Plugin contents is usually rendered on top of normal content but for
Flash on the Windows platform (at least there with IE, recent Mozilla
and recent Opera) you can set
<embed wmode="transparent"
src="whatever.swf">
and then CSS z-index works as normal on the embed and other elements in
the page. But that setting affects Flash drawing performance, it
deteriorates.

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