Drupal 5.10- IE 6

my nice menus pop up behind a Youtube video that appears on a CCK page (result of and Embedded Media Field).
can this be fixed with z-index? And on that note can the div/tag of the offending embed field and the li tag of the nice menu item have to be in some sort of similar heirchy?

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add1sun’s picture

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Status: Active » Closed (works as designed)

In the FAQ it notes that you can't do much about flash players.

Glowingtree’s picture

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wow, that really sucks.. has anyone tried anything to get around this?

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Title: nice menus pop-up behind embedded Video content in IE6 » nice menus pop-up behind embedded flash content in IE6 - SOLUTION FOUND!

FIXED! There is no change you can make to Nice menus or CSS to fix this. I went into the youtube.inc file in the
sub folder within Embedded Media Field module (/contrib/video_cck/providers) and added the line
<param name=\"wmode\" value=\"transparent\"></object>"; inside the section that looks like this

$output .= "<object type=\"application/x-shockwave-flash\" height=\"$height\" width=\"$width\" data=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/$embed\" id=\"VideoPlayback\"><param name=\"movie\" value=\"http://www.youtube.com/v/$embed\"><param name=\"allowScriptAcess\" value=\"sameDomain\"><param name=\"quality\" value=\"best\"><param name=\"bgcolor\" value=\"#FFFFFF\"><param name=\"scale\" value=\"noScale\"><param name=\"salign\" value=\"TL\"><param name=\"FlashVars\" value=\"playerMode=embedded\" />
  }
  return $output;

This just outputs the regular flash object tags/options (note the canceled out " symbols)

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That helped a lot. I had problem with flash banner that I was able to fix now.

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wow, this seems to be a pretty general fix for embedded flash content. i used it with a totally different embedding method for the blip.tv player and it fixed the same problem for me.

blip.tv embedding code before (nice menus under the video on IE6):

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="390" src="http://blip.tv/play/blablabla" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>

blip.tv embedding code after (nice menus on top of the video on IE6):

<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="390" src="http://blip.tv/play/blablabla" wmode="transparent" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>

thanks for the fix!