So this is what I have:

<div>
    <div><img src="some image"></div>
    <div>[flash]</div>
</div>

4/21/2008 12:39:53 PM

not sure, i use a program called SWF Quicken which gives a decent visual interface for arranging your layers order, timing, etc...saves everything as a SWF file

4/21/2008 12:47:43 PM

not good for search engines though

4/21/2008 12:59:47 PM

maybe not i dunno, but its great if you have some existing flash files on a website but just want to change the main artwork in them

probably not applicable to your situation but a handy application to have anyway if you do a lot with flash

4/21/2008 1:04:52 PM

i have no idea if this will work, but you might try changing the order of the two inner divs and use some absolute positioning to keep the flash below the image.

4/21/2008 1:07:57 PM

it's got something to do with flash... before that flash piece was just an image. We just made a very simple app that animates and replaced the image...

Before the navigation worked (when the lower piece was an image) but now that it's an swf... it goes behind it.

4/21/2008 1:09:43 PM

hmm, refer to this thread: http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/printthread.php?t=158317

4/21/2008 1:14:13 PM

you cannot make a div appear above flash in any browser except Safari. FF does it half ass.

what you can do is write a javascript function that looks for any objects on the page like flash and hides them while the menu is open then makes them visible when the menu is closed.

this is a flash issue because flash likes to be above everything else.

[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 1:31 PM. Reason : .]

4/21/2008 1:30:33 PM

i hate how any page with flash takes over my keyboard and i can't ctrl+tab between browser tabs

[Edited on April 21, 2008 at 1:39 PM. Reason : loathe]

4/21/2008 1:38:28 PM

been through this recently on a new site for work. Sucked ass that I spent forever trying to find a workaround and then just said screw it and put some filler text that could have been below the flash gallery above it instead.

4/21/2008 1:59:35 PM

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/

This solved my problem, FYI for anyone else having these issues.

4/22/2008 2:46:36 PM

swfobject has saved my websites with flash a number of times. to use flash with css rollovers, you'd still have to use z-index. Just define the z-index in the main css file so everything index's correctly, then set the param variable "wmode" to "transparent" for the flash file.

4/22/2008 11:04:32 PM