Webpage content underneath Flash content

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So, you’ve got a website that you’ve made and you’ve used a Flash movie on it.  Okay, no worries.  Now, what if you tried to add a (non-form-element) drop-down menu or some AJAX-ed content into the site, and found the Flash movie actually acted as an overlay?

This problem doesn’t seem consistent.  Different OSs, browsers, and Flash versions don’t indicate consistency - that’s what I’ve seen anyway.  Nevertheless, the problem persists for some users and it’s down-right annoying.

The fix?  Make your Flash code look similar to this:

<object data="my-movie.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" height="100" width="200">
    <param name="movie" value="my-movie.swf" />
    <param name="quality" value="high" />
    <param name="embed" value="transparent" />
    <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
    <param name="menu" value="false" />
    <img src="alternate.jpg" alt="ARCS - Revolutionising Collaboration" height="100" width="200" />
</object>

That there should be entirely XHTML compliant (and completely cross-browser compatible) code for creating a Flash object on your page that’ll place nice with other content.

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