Flash Dropdown menu issue

[RyanSpaulding]

Hey guys,

 

I'm in the middle of designing our company's new website. The menu is to be done in flash and the majority of the rest of the site in HTML.

 

I'm having an issue with my dropdowns and how to get it visible over the html. I may be going about this all wrong too, not sure. Anyways, here is a screen cap of my flash file. As you can see, I've cut the stage off below the main menu options so that HTML can start immediatly below this movie. The problem is, I want the sub options to pop out over the html...the stage cuts it off, yet I cant increase the stage size because the HTML would start too low.

 

http://www.theenvisiongroup.net/overhaul/dropdown_issue.jpg

 

How can I accomplish this? Is there some code that I can add to the HTML to allow elements to be viewed outside the stage?

 

Any help is greatly appreciated. A link to the html page at it's curent state is below.

 

http://www.theenvisiongroup.net/overhaul/

[Guest nazcaLine]

i m not expert in dreamweaver but they have something like layers. you can try to place yopur flash swf in that layer on top the html file. not sure though.

maybe something with javascript

and finally, making your whole page in flash ( i love Flash

 

Eduardo

[AndreaCardy]

I noticed that you had the same issue that I am encountering when creating a Flash dropdown menu. Did you ever figure out how to get the menu to drop down over the html text?

[Jeff Mottle]

You'll have to create some actionscript to create DIV tags and force the flash content into the DIV tags so they can float over the HTML content.

[AndreaCardy]

Would you mind elaborating on this? I'm not sure what you mean. I have already tried using absolute divs and that is a very bad solution for me that I cannot use. Are you referring to something else?

 

Thank you!

[Jeff Mottle]

I've never done it myself except for a few tests I was running for some banners, but I think DIVs are the only way you can do it. You have to put the flash into HTML container. Your other option is to not use flash and use DHTML so you won't have the problems.