Flashfader vs. Lightbox

this is covered in google, and on my site, which btw, comes up in the proper google search, however for simplicities sake..

http://www.village-idiot.org/search/lightbox%20fix

Ahh…I see. it’s because the “larger image” is a script, but the flash image is, well, Flash.

Flash is *not* part of normal HTML as you think it. It’s outside of the DOM. It’s an object – not an image. Therefore, it will place itself on top of anything else on the page – because it’s not *really* a part of the page.

However, there is a simple way around it. You must add this to your code in the object/embed area:

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

and then in the line that starts <embed src...>, you must add ‘wmode=”transparent”‘

ZM –

I really don’t know 🙂

And whooami – it is my understanding that placing the flash in a div with a z-index doesn’t matter in the least. Flash is out of the DOM scope, and therefore not really part of the HTML – it’s an object that has it’s own “policies” if you will. You can z-index it to hell, and it won’t budge from the top. It’s the param tag editing that does the trick – if you don’t have that, then nothing will work. Also, the need for the line in the embed tag is necessary in some browsers (I can’t remember which ones off the top of my head, though.)

Again, this is my understanding of how CSS related to objects like Flash, Quicktime and other such things, so don’t take my word as gospel on the fact. But if you know otherwise, I’d love to see some links to that info!

Oh, and Eric – what whooami said about changing your plugin. Normally, you’d just edit it right there in the param/embed tags – but if the theme uses a plugin for it, save yourself some future headaches and just do it there 🙂

eric, which version of the plugin, and who’s the author? There are 3 lightbox plugins floating around, I think. I know that atleast 1 author was made aware and he might have updated his plugin (this issue got brought up via comments on the plugins permalink page).

Ill be more than happy to make the changes for you though, if there isnt an updated one available.

But ..

If you change the code in the plugin though, today, it wont affect posts you made yesterday. Make sure thats not what you are doing. You will need to re-edit the posts you included any flash in, and ‘pretend’ you are inserting the flash anew.

@doodlebee Im aware of all of that, I posted the ‘fix’ i found, and gave the reference.

yes, im sorry, youre right. its the flashfader plugin that will need the editing, All the same ill be more than willing to help with editing,

Like I said though, even if you correctly edit the plugin code, you may or may not see the changes immediately — I dont know. I would edit the code, and test it on another page, to see if it the new usage of the plugin is changed by the addition – You dont need lightbox o0n the page to test, you just need to look for the added line in your source.

byw, thats a very nice site you have 🙂

Im off to sleep but feel free to email me via the contact form on my site and if you need me to do the edits and test for ya.

Eric,

Take a look at http://dark-code.bulix.org/2texfm-15637

The two additions are at lines 172 and 182 respectively

Note also, that I changed the order some in that second blob of code simply because I didnt like how late the plugin was actually defining the movie parameter, and seperated things out by line just to make viewing easier for you.

Unfortunately, you’ll play hell copying and pasting those 2 areas because of the line number insertion that pastebin does, but atleast you’ll see better.

the fix is already stated above. It’s a matter of editing whatever you are using to insert the flash object, plugin, your own code, whatever it is.

I know absolutely nothing about dewplayer, but if its creating a flash object also than that plugin needs editing as well.