SWF Files in Sidebar Help

  • Resolved Dan14

    (@dan14)


    10 years, 3 months ago

    My theme is TwentyFourteen. When I try to add a SWF file in the right sidebar it rips through the top menu when the page is scrolled down. I have JPEG files (images) in the sidebar and they don’t go through the top menu when the page is scrolled down. How do you fix this?

Viewing 8 replies - 46 through 53 (of 53 total)

  • Yeah, I just looked at my own test site using IE 11, and I see the same thing that you do, the SWF movie overlaps the menu bar when the page scrolls up. I’ll see if I can figure it out, but it might take a while.

    OK, I found a solution here. So what you need to do is include the WMODE parameter:

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

    You should be able to include that line somewhere in the code for the flash player, as long as it’s inside the <object> … </object> tags. I’ve added it to my sandbox site, so now you should see the movie slide under the menu in IE.

    Here’s my code for reference:

    <object classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000" codebase="https://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,29,0" width="400" height="300">
   <param name="movie" value="/video/tangramone.swf">
   <param name="quality" value="high">
   <param name="wmode" value="transparent">
   <embed src="/video/tangramone.swf" quality="high" pluginspage="https://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="400" height="300">
</object>

    Hmm, I may have spoken too soon. It now works on IE8, but not IE 11. Have to look at it some more.

    Thread Starter Dan14

    (@dan14)

    That’s what I came up with!! You are a genius!! When I tried that at first it didn’t work for me but then I realize I need to add another value in src. So besides the param name I added in the sec section wmode=”transparent” and it fixed it. To help others, this wmode=”transparent” needs to be placed just before the pluginpage= in the src.

    Thank you so much for helping me CrouchingBruin!!! You are the best!!!

    Thread Starter Dan14

    (@dan14)

    If you add wmode=”transparent” in embed src= just before the plugin page it will fix it. This is a famous problem with youtube links in wordpress, I just didn’t relate at the time until I saw the youtube videos overlapping the menu and it clicked.

    Thread Starter Dan14

    (@dan14)

    I knew nothing about code writng but I am learning every day thanks to people like you.

    Ah, yes, adding wmode=”transparent” did the trick. Congrats, glad we figured it out.

    Thread Starter Dan14

    (@dan14)

    Thank you so much CrouchingBruin!!

Viewing 8 replies - 46 through 53 (of 53 total)
  • The topic ‘SWF Files in Sidebar Help’ is closed to new replies.