flash background???
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- Dno
Morning all,
can anyone tell me the best way to combine a flash swf with html elements?
I want to use a flash movie underneath some html copy/images. I tried using a layer over the swf to hold the copy but the copy keeps vanishing behind the swf - or show random areas of copy!
Would CSS be a better way of doing it? Does anyone know of a good tutorial to do this?
...thought it would be quite straightforward, but the law of sod seems to be having a chuckle at my expense!!!
Any ideas folks?
;)
- mydo0
you can't really... it's possible only with clever javascript i think. but i've already been stupid once today, so who am i to give advice.
- freshlysqueezed0
To my knowledge, Flash cannot sit 'beneath' HTML.
Looks like you might have to look into developing purely in flash...
- thismanslife0
Not reeeally possible. It can "sort-of" be done, but Macs (Mac IE) don't seem to do it... To the best of my knowledge.
I really really wouldn't.
- Dno0
...bugger!
...thanks for the advice though - saved me wasting the day trying to do something that can't be done!
- blackspade0
somone here (cant remember who) recently had an DHTML menu expanding & covering a .swf, browsers didnt like it at all.
- kev_charlton0
http://theflashlab.net/explore/f…
check this out, not sure about mac compatability, but it works a treat on a pc. Have tried it myself and is easy to implement...
- kev_charlton0
Just tested it on a mac (ie, safari, firefox) and it works fine.
- forcetwelve0
i think flash can work over the top of html though (right?)
i remember a guy at work coded a flash drop down menu over an html table
- ********0
I did this site that has a dhtml menu that works over the top of flash.
Can't remember where I got the menu code from so probably not a lot of help. But it can be done. ish. i think.