position:fixed; Firefox and Flash

position:fixed; object causing display problems of swf in Firefox

[oona]

Hi,
This position:fixed; image -

body > img#bg{
position: fixed;
}

is causing display problems for an .swf in Firefox.
Regardless of which position property i give the Flash div, it won't show up as long as the fixed image is displayed.

Has anyone out there, or rather in here had this problem before?

[alias]

I've been playing around with Firefox (1.0.3/4), fixed position and flash some time ago - I've also had similar problems if I remember correctly.
It looks to me like FF has a problem with Flash sometimes, especially in such subtle conditions.

[oona]

any solutions?

[alias]

I remember that time I've noticed the Flash elements are being DISTORTED (not visible, right click menu showing elsewhere etc.). It only happened when I've placed a fixed position div with flash on anywhere except for the top of the page. I was so annoyed by this that I've abandoned that experiment.

I don't know if this is what happens in your case but anyway - I don't know any solution for the problem, maybe it's a FF bug?

[oona]

seems to be,I'm hoping to solve it by messing about with the embed tag properties but I haven't had any joy yet.

[oona]

Hi,
I haven't found a solution to making Flash work with position:fixed in Mozilla, but I seem to achieve the same results with
position:static;
as with
position:fixed;
in terms of what I want my img #bg to do and Mozilla doesn't seem to have any Flash display problems here.

Now all I have to do is find out why my #head has disappeared...

[oona]

no, not the same at all ...
back to square one.

[alias]

I wonder if anyone else has suffered such problems? Are we the only ones? :)

[oona]

I've found quite a few having trouble with dropdown menus and position:fixed but no satisfactory solutions there either.