Menu Flash Over iframe that contains a pdf document

iframe swf flash pdf under over

[ewanna]

Hi!
I have a problem with my Flash dropdown menu, i have an iframe under it, and when i load a regular html page (using the z-index and a transparent swf) i am able to show it over the iframe perfectly on Mozilla and IE, the problem is that when i have a pdf file in the iframe, the menu is displayed under the pdf :S (I try embed and iframe labels to insert the pdf and i still have the same result)

My maximum achieve was to make a java dropdown menu and instead place regular text for hyperlinks i placed a swf button, this button is display over the pdf on Mozilla/5.0 and IE but it is not what i want.

I found this java menu
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and it only works on IE, but not in Mozilla/5.0

Thank You in advance

[edited by: engine at 9:04 am (utc) on Nov. 22, 2008]
[edit reason] no urls, see TOS [/edit]

[tedster]

Hello ewanna, and welcome to the forums.

Flash is not html - it requires a browser plug-in. PDF documents are not html and also require a plug-in. Various browsers handle these plug-ins, especially those for pdf documents, quite differently. I think you will have continued cross-browser troubles by mixing technologies like this. What you are running into here is this, at least - the way that the Adobe plug-in is handled varies by browser.

I use a third party pdf reader, not Adobe, and I'm far from alone. If I came to a page with a pdf in and iframe a new browser tab would open up to display it.

I'd strongly suggest you not attempt to display a pdf document this way. I also suggest that Flash is not a good technology for website navigation. Even some of the top entertainment networks who used Flash menus in the past have abandoned that effort and returned to standard html for navigation. It's just too problematic.