flash object is set too far away from the next element, that is to say

flash css position size

[thosecars82]

Hello guys
I would appreciate any suggestion for these two things:
if you see this site <> you will be able to check that the flash presentation is very far away from the footer and there is nothing in between. Would you please give me any suggestion to get the footer closer to the flash object?
The second doubt is: Why the size of this flash object corresponding to the presentation is not the same depending on the browser used? There is a noticeable difference between Microsoft Explorer 6 and Safari or Microsoft Explorer 6 and Firefox. Moreover, there is a slight difference as well on the amount of space between the flash presentation and the footer depending on the browser, but this last difference is not that big.
Thanks in advance

[edited by: SuzyUK at 7:28 am (utc) on Oct. 6, 2008]
[edit reason] please no URI's [/edit]

[SuzyUK]

Welcome to WebmasterWorld, thosecars82!

perhaps if you split out just the <object>/<embed> code and the footer div into its own page to make a small code example which you can post here it would help us all. If the problem doesn't happen when only those two elements are present, add back in your widths and any other elements you might have between them e.g. any clearing divs, and then keep adding the surrounding code until it does.

Also add some background colors behind the movie so you/we can see exactly where and how much the gap is

without a code sample it's hard to tell, oh and make sure the
code validates [validator.w3.org] as this might be a factor

[thosecars82]

Thanks, but as you can see this problem was solved some days ago. I think the problem was that I was giving a fixed height for the main container which made that the footer went down to leave space for that main container.

[SuzyUK]

ah OK.. thanks for letting us know, glad you got it sorted

using fixed heights within a CSS layout is not generally a good idea unless they are on elements which only contain fixed height elements like images, objects, frames etc. differences in rendering of relative elements like font sizes /line-heights etc. x-browser will make it impossible to fix something like a footer element to the bottom and for it to always appear pixel perfect in each different browser