Stu Goymer says:

Hey Brian – until I found your post I nearly gave up on trying to do this.

Thanks for putting me in the right direction, your method above works fine.

I am working on a large project for a corporate client and I wanted to use a search form over a Flash banner. Wasn’t hopeful it would work cross browser (or at all).

I did another search “swfObject embed code” and came across the new SwiftObject 2.0 coding. It solves the IE flash activation box issue, is W3c , detects versions and offers alternative HTML if no Flash.

You can even use a code generator. just remember to specify your Flash ‘parameter’ as above ()

My code looks like this

script type=”text/javascript” src=”${row2_assets_base}scripts/swfobject.js”>

var flashvars = {};
var params = {};
params.wmode = “transparent”;
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF(“${row2_assets_base}flash/intro.swf”, “introtext”, “960″, “250″, “9.0.0″, false, flashvars, params, attributes);

The links you should check out:

http://code.google.com/p/swfobject/
http://www.swffix.org/swfobject/generator/

Pygmees says:

Hi
it seems that google chrome doesnt handle swfobject: all my flash apps using swfobject are not showing while those without work perfectly…

Waqas Ahmed says:

Hi

I was having the same problem, flash movie supressing any div or dhtml menus, but the solution posted by Stu Goymer did work for.

Thank you..

<script type=”text/javascript” src=”${row2_assets_base}

var flashvars = {};
var params = {};
params.wmode = “transparent”;
var attributes = {};
swfobject.embedSWF(”${row2_assets_base}flash/intro.swf”, “introtext”, “960″, “250″, “9.0.0″, false, flashvars, params, attributes);

james says:

thanks, hadn’t refreshed in a while, got it to work, amazing

Brian Yerkes says:

Hi Joao,

Sorry, I can’t help you out there. Hopefully someone will stumble across this that knows. Try a forum also where the serious flash programmers roam

Brian Yerkes’s last blog post..Website Alignment – How Do You Like It

Renee says:

mwah!! love u for this tutorial this was the best thing that happened to me. i was ripping my hair out till i googled the problem and found your simple solution

Thanks again,
Renee

Silverhawk says:

OMFG.. Thank-you Thank-you Thank-you!!!!.. I was beginning to pull my hair out, and just couldn’t understand why when I was using the same line of code as everyone else and it still wouldn’t work for me… then i visited your fortmyersbeach.org site and just copied out the exact embed code replacing my swf file for yours and like magic it worked!!

UGHHH! thanks sooo much!!

Oliver Nassar says:

Boom goes the dynamite!

Kevin Hannon says:

I had a unique situation where I had to use the swfobject.embedSWF embed method coupled with the external swfobject.js external file instead of embed method Dreamweaver would put into your code when you insert a Flash SWF, and I just wanted to share the code that worked worked for me incase anyone is searching this for a solution like myself.

function onItemSelect(name) {
}

function onItemClick(name) {
}

swfobject.embedSWF(“YOUR_SWF_NAME_HERE.swf”, “YOUR_DIV”, “400″, “400″, “9″, null, {wmode:”transparent”});

I’m not sure when the functions refer to or if they are necessary, but note how the wmode transparent is written…

Hope this helps.

Kevin

Alecu says:

It works, thanks.

RushO says:

Hi Brian,

Could u help me to solve my problem here. I have made menu background transparent but when I place them with DIV in my html page i got this problem. Have a look at this link

http://www.creativerush.com.au/test/1.html

and if u could explain to me where did i went wrong.

Thanks you n looking forward for your response.

Cheers,

RushO

stebal4 says:

That is a fantastic post, this problem in FF3 was driving me mad, thanks!

Simply added:
var params = {
wmode: “transparent”
};

Karlson says:

Thanks for the tutorial!!! It was a big help. I do have a question about the Z-index. Should this work with out the use of the Z-index? I could only get it to work if I used the Z-index.

ColtonCat says:

Just a quick note, reading Brian’s post, I notice he is dealing with swfObject 1.5, this has been superseded by swfObject 2.2 now, which is why so many of the comments have a different syntax. 2.2 does not support the fObj = new syntax.

swfObject 2.x now has a Google Code home, with lots of info: swfObject 2 on Google Code

Un-Googleable says:

Yes! Thank you!

saira says:

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Danny says:

Until I found your post I was sooo annoyed. Spend two nights up until 6 AM trying to figure this out. Thanks so much!

Damodharan says:

This works good in static contents. I want the same with dynamically. I wrote the following codes,

var params1 = {movie:”Flash/SlideShowPlayer.swf?xml_path=Flash/SlideShowDetails.aspx?FromPage=MyPage&Dat=”+ Date.parse(new Date()),quality:”high”, wmode: “transparent”, allowscriptaccess: “always”, defer: “defer”};
swfobject.embedSWF(“Flash/SlideShowPlayer.swf?xml_path=Flash/SlideShowDetails.aspx?FromPage=MyPage&Dat=”+ Date.parse(new Date()), “divSlideShow”, “485px”, “420px”, “7.0.0″, “assets/expressInstall.swf”,”",params1,”");

The “SlideshowDetails.aspx” page dynamically generates the xml input. It doesn’t work after update anything

Damodahran says:

Thank you StevenM.

I got the solution from your reference link.

jamesedwardclare@gmail.com says:

hi, this looks great just what i need, but im a bit confused as to where i need to add the code, in flash or in dreamweaver embedded.

Miguel Nunes says:

Ha! Finally found a solution, thanks !

Tanya says:

Hi,

I do not use transparent wmode, as most of the sites these days should be ipad/iphone compatible, thus i should have an option for these ones that do not play flash. So, i keep static background image under each flash, so something will display on the mobile devices.

Maybe z-index should work to resolve this better? (I didn’t try it yet though

Gobinathan says:

Thanks it works!

vtdesigner says:

Thank you very much for this! It worked perfectly.