drop down menu appears behind flash movie

[danlott]

hi all,
i dont know if anyone has had this problem....
i have a dhtml menu that i've implemented into our site. everything works fine, but for one page where i have a flash movie and the drop down appears behind the movie so you cant see the drop down sections. i know this will have something to do with the z-index, does anyone know how i could get around this?
many thanks
- D

[BlobFisk]

This is a problem. Flash (and some form elements) inhabit a z-index of it's own, allowing nothing to appear over it. I believe that most plugins behave in the same fashion.

One workaround I've seen, and it's not pretty, is to put the flash on a layer and hide it while the menu layer is being displayed.

[danlott]

hi BlobFisk,
thanks for replying.
i thought it might not be possible to do anything about it. thanks for confirming. i thought maybe i could put the menu in one div with a z-index of 1, then the flash movie in a div with a z-index of 0. But this isnt possible.
cheers
- D