Mega menu issue and flash fighting

We have an issue on this site here when viewing in IE 8/9 in various WIN installs and Chrome in Win/OSX

The menus drop down behind the Holden flash advertisement. We have animated gif's (which I've switched off for now) which appear rotationally but don't have this issue.

Template is B&W with changed CSS and images ... nothing else

Any thoughts as to how to resolve this?
Most frustrating

the error is not present in firefox i noticed.

i guess you will have to play with the z-index to get the megamenu on top of the flash...

Firefox and Safari on Win and OSX don't have a problem

So fiddle with the megamenu z-index is what you mean explodedk

I tried that but it then stuffed the other browsers view of the site.

the z-index for the mega menu should be higher than the flash...

shouldn't have effect on the other browsers views...

Ok sounds like I stuffed up somewhere.

The flash ad is some flash placed in the module "top" in the B&W template

That module css doesn't have any z-index applied to it.

The mega.css does on line 68 .gk-menu .childcontent { z-index: 999; }

More suggestions?

hmmm. i haven't played much with flash, but from earlier forumposts, i've read that you will have to set something to transparent for it to work properly...

hi,

try wmode="transparent" for the .swf embed parameters( param-tag in object and attribute in embed!

To edit an existing HTML page, add the WMODE parameters to the HTML code.

1. Add the following parameter to the OBJECT tag:

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

2. Add the following parameter to the EMBED tag:

wmode="transparent"

for further info look at:
http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/142/tn_14201.html

nice greetings

wmode="transparent" it is



Thank you Polivka

My learning for today

good you got it solved

Spoke too soon ... [strike]not resolved for IE8[/strike] All fixed

<param name="wmode" value="transparent"> was placed in the wrong place

hehehe ...

your site looks good imo

Thanks Gavick provide a great foundation

The closer to the event the more things we switch on .. sliding images, movies and sound tracks of artists in tabs.

A local community group run this event and 20,000+ people attend

I had the same problem with Chrome, so I changed the module banners code


In line 121 (more or less) of file helper.php of mod_banners
I put this code

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         $html =   "<object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="http://fpdownload.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0" border="0" width="$width" height="$height">
                  <param name="movie" value="$imageurl"> <param name="wmode" value="opaque">
                  <embed src="$imageurl" loop="false" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/get/flashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" WMODE="opaque" width="$width" height="$height"></embed>
               </object>";