Re: FN-FORUM: Flash as a background in CSS?

date posted 1st February 2005 15:49

At 10:26 on Tuesday, 01 Feb 2005, Lightsurgery wrote:

>
>> >Is there any way of using flash as a background in CSS?
>> >Is that a very silly question?
>> >Just that if you can have an image, why not a SWF as a background?
>> >I basically want to use flash as a background and overlay
>> HTML on the top.
>> >TIA
>> >Justin Goring
>> >www.lightsurgery.co.uk
>
> Yeah I was thinking maybe it was possible to do it by laying out two ID's
> using Absolute positioning (1 over the other) and Z.index.

sadly flash plays on top of the browser layer and z-index is only
controlling the browser layers, not the plug-ins - also causes issues with
some form controls in some browsers...

depending on what effect you want it is possible to animate backgrounds
using the good old animated gif...

see this for example (use firefox)

http://www.csszengarden.com/?cssfile=http://www.css-praxis.de/cssocean/zenocean.css

and scroll right down, and wait...