Fix for drop down menu hiding behind flash in Mozilla and Internet Explorer Browsers

matt@computepros.com — Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:25:00 GMT

If your drop down menu disappears behind your flash file in either Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox, there is an easy fix for this. In your html code, add the following code to your flash file.

< name="wmode" value="transparent">

Before Fix

After Fix

This will make the flash file transparent and your menu will be seen.

Code Example :
< src="http://www.website/flashfile.swf" width="500" height="333" scale="ShowAll" play="true" loop="true" menu="true" style="font-weight: bold;">wmode="transparent" quality="1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash">

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Fix for drop down menu hiding behind flash in Mozilla and Internet Explorer Browsers