Flash objects hide Advanced Layer Popup window

Question:

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I use Flash and Advanced Layer Popup on my site. When the popup window appears on a page with Flash object, it pops up under the flash movie. How can I fix this? Answer:

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This is due the way the browser handles flash objects.

For more information check the article of Microsoft How the Z-index Attribute Works for HTML Elements.

To fix it add the following parameters to the code of you flash object:

* Add the following element into your object element:

<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />

* Add the following attribute to the embed tag:

wmode="transparent" 

The resulting code could look like this:

<object classid="clsid:d27cdb6e-ae6d-11cf-96b8-444553540000" codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0" width="400" height="400" id="FlashImageGallery" align="middle">
  <param name="wmode" value="transparent" />
  <param name="FlashVars" value="Gallery=Images/FlashImageGallery.xml" />
  <param name="movie" value="dmxFlashGallery2.swf" />
  <param name="quality" value="best" />
  <param name="scale" value="noscale" />
  <param name="bgcolor" value="#00CCFF" />
  <embed src="dmxFlashGallery2.swf" id="FlashImageGallery" quality="best" flashvars="Gallery=Images/FlashImageGallery.xml" scale="noscale" bgcolor="#00CCFF" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" wmode="transparent" width="400" height="400" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" />
</object>

If you use the Adobe workaround for Flash and Shockwave content described in: External JavaScript solution 2: For multiple occurrences of embedded content

You should add the following parameters to AC_FL_RunContent JavaScript function: 

'wmode','transparent'

The resulting code may look like this:

<script type="text/javascript">
AC_FL_RunContent( 'codebase','http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=7,0,19,0',
'width','400','height','400','id','FlashImageGallery','align','middle','src',
'dmxFlashGallery2','quality','best','flashvars','Gallery=Images/FlashImageGallery.xml'
,'scale','noscale','bgcolor','#00CCFF','wmode','transparent','pluginspage',
'http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer','movie','dmxFlashGallery2' );
//end AC code
</script>