{"id":641,"date":"2007-08-30T18:38:18","date_gmt":"2007-08-30T22:38:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/kev.deadsquid.com\/?p=641"},"modified":"2007-08-30T18:38:18","modified_gmt":"2007-08-30T22:38:18","slug":"ie-flash-overlay-divs-blecch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/2007\/08\/30\/ie-flash-overlay-divs-blecch\/","title":{"rendered":"ie + flash + overlay divs = blecchy z-index css fun"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px;\">\n <a href=\"http:\/\/www.flickr.com\/photos\/deadsquid\/1279238977\/\" title=\"photo sharing\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/farm2.static.flickr.com\/1231\/1279238977_a0d9d9b542_m.jpg\" alt=\"\" style=\"border: 1px solid #e1d6c6 !important; padding:3px !important\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>See that video window? It is supposed to be covered by the links page. Obviously, it&#8217;s not.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently this is a fairly common problem with IE. Embedded flash applets that like to peek through CSS divs that should be resting nicely over top of the flash app, obscuring the content in the overlay (the links page, in this case). <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m reasonably sure it has something to do with MS&#8217;s DirectX video overlay, but that is pure speculation and I&#8217;m way too lazy to find out for sure.<\/p>\n<p>In any event, if you run into this, here&#8217;s some more info along with fixes:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/joshuaink2006.johnoxton.co.uk\/blog\/82\/flash-content-and-z-index\">Flash content and z-index<\/a><\/p>\n<p>and<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/veerle.duoh.com\/index.php\/blog\/comments\/experimenting_with_flash_content_and_z_index\/\">Experimenting with Flash content and z-index<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good to know!<\/p>\n<p>Also, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mozilla.com\/firefox\">Firefox<\/a> doesn&#8217;t have this problem, and you really should use that, anyways. Yes, it&#8217;s a shameless plug. Deal. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>Also, also, the site pictured is <a href=\"http:\/\/amalah.com\">amalah.com<\/a>  (pronounced AIM-a-lah (bitches)). If you haven&#8217;t heard of her or read her stuff, you should. She&#8217;s wickedly funny, sarcastic, and cool. Go read. Now!<br \/>\n<br clear=\"all\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See that video window? It is supposed to be covered by the links page. Obviously, it&#8217;s not. Apparently this is a fairly common problem with IE. Embedded flash applets that like to peek through CSS divs that should be resting nicely over top of the flash app, obscuring the content in the overlay (the links [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-641","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-good-to-know"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=641"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/641\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=641"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=641"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kev.needham.ca\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=641"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}