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Tip: How to send Flash elements to the back

November 24th, 2008 Leave a comment Go to comments

I was checking the new LinkedIn search feature earlier today and noticed that the results displayed once you start typing inside the people search box were covered by the 300×250 flash ad.

This issue exists on many web sites where Flash objects appear in the front, and cover dynamic HTML content. One example are pages that have embedded YouTube videos as well as Snap Shots that appear as a layer under the video player instead in front of it .

To solve this issue, you don’t need to be a Flash development guru. All you should do is make sure the Flash object (ad, embedded video player, etc.) has a transparent background. Depending on whether you are using the OBJECT or EMBED tag:

  • Add the following parameter to the OBJECT tag: <param name="wmode" value="transparent">
  • Add the following parameter to the EMBED tag: wmode="transparent"

Once you change your code, you should not see an issue similar to the one below.



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  • hards

    excellent, thanks

  • http://thecomputergal.com Nora McDougall-Collins

    Perfect!!! Thank you so much for this tip. I used it on the upcoming rebuild of the BlackfootChallenge.org web site!

  • anonym

    thanks for this

  • http://www.real-idea.net/ ayman

    thank you veryyyyyyyyyyyy much
    i was stucked at here
    go with my fine hopes

  • Aramaic

    Nice..thanks

  • http://www.finsofts.com/ Jayadev

    Thnk you very much…

  • dartkrs

    Thank you very much.

    For Adobe CS4 users: you also have to modify the javascript inside body -> set 'wmode' to 'transparent' and it will work perfectly :)

  • Amit

    thanks. it really helped me!!! :)

  • Yael

    Thanks a lot. You helped me out.

  • Yael

    Thanks a lot. You helped me out.

  • Jaymeydad

    You are awesome, you helped me even you Married +3 :)

  • Sampath

    greate job dear……… thank a bilion

  • Seandx3

    thanks!! helped a lot!

  • Daniel

    EXCELLENT!! Thank you.

  • Havath

    Wow! Thank you very much sir! I had started to lose my temper but you really helped me! You deserve 1 litre of whysky!

  • lee@sam

    Thank you so so much, sir. Great great help!

  • Tony

    Too much help….. thank you very much……

  • Herschel

    Brilliant! Many thanks.

  • MrBaazi

     Thanks, very helpful. BTW it does not work with Chrome. In chrome, it shows flash object still in foreground. Any tip for Chrome!

  • MrBaazi

     Thanks, very helpful. BTW it does not work with Chrome. In chrome, it shows flash object still in foreground. Any tip for Chrome!

  • MrBaazi

    Sorry! I forgot to add param to EMBED tag. I works……  thanks

  • Advie85

    Well done…Thank you very much…Works Perfectly!

  • Atp Capedeh

    wow,,, thanks a lot

  • Dex_the_anoying

    Does not work in IE

  • Elí

    Works perfectly, thanks Jay. Greetings from Monterrey, Mexico.