flash background behind html & css

SooTyLaD · 15 Apr 2007 at 11:35

hi peeps...

i've seen a few sites in the past (cant find any examples now tho) of where flash can be loaded behind active html and css, i.e. there could be things discreetly moving in the bg whereas the html div in front behaves normally, you can highlight text etc...

its normally the case that you can interract with the bits of flash that aren't covered up aswell, but thats a sidetrack...

does anyone know the principle behind getting this to work?

Pr0t0c0L · 15 Apr 2007 at 20:15

uk.playstation.com do it, but i dunno how its done

SooTyLaD · 16 Apr 2007 at 15:56

yeah there we go, good example... anyone with the knowhow?

Audiofreq · 16 Apr 2007 at 16:05

QuiKsiLVeR said:
yeah there we go, good example... anyone with the knowhow?

Edit...sorry i never read the full problem.

Wait sorry i think i did actually. Here's what i posted:

I'm not entirely sure but i've used overlibs and i guess that's the same principle.

Using CSS if you were to have a background div which took up the whole page, then placed transparent layers on top of it you'd be able to put the flash in the background div and your content in the overlapping transparent divs..

Layers are done using the z-index.

Conrad11 · 16 Apr 2007 at 16:30

At a guess it's by layering divs (z-index)

EDIT: See above.