Questions tagged [wmode]
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Youtube iframe wmode issue
Using javascript with jQuery, I am adding an iframe with a youtube url to display a video on a website however the embed code that gets loaded in the iframe from youtube doesnt have wmode="Opaque", ...
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differences between using wmode="transparent", "opaque", or "window" for an embedded object on a webpage
when embedding a Flash object with the <object> and <embed> tag, there is an attribute called wmode. It seems that most of the time, wmode="transparent" is the same as wmode="opaque" as ...
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Google Chrome, Flash and z-index wrong behaviour
Google Chrome is displaying the z-index of a Flash video incorrectly.
Take a look at http://maxusglobal.com/ in Firefox or Internet Explorer.
Now take a look at it in Chrome.
The big video at the ...
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Changing arbitrary flash objects wmode to transparent
I need to change wmode of arbitrary flash objects to transparent from external js file to make sure they don't hide menus without using Jquery or similar libs.
In FF I use getElementsByTagName("embed"...
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Disable Adobe Flash Player hardware acceleration in the embed code or AS
We run surf camera streams on our website, which are played via the latest version (5.4) of JWPlayer on our pages.
Recently we switched over to another streaming service, and H.264 streams, as we are ...
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How to add wmode="transparent" for every flash object & ebmed tag?
I have a page which displays dynamic flash content from issuu.com. I need to add wmode="transparent" because otherwise navigation menu shows under flash. Is there a short way to do this with jQuery or ...
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MouseWheel not working when published movie has wmode="transparent"?
I'm experiencing a bug with a published flash movie. When I embed the movie in an HTML page (with SWFObject 2.1), and assing it the wmode param value of 'transparent', all my functions based on the ...
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wmode - What does it mean in browser's rendering behavior?
Wmode in object tags and iframe tags.
There are many discussions on making navigation to work properly in flash pages etc etc.
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Someone please explain with details on what attribute does in ...
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WMODE and Flash Video - stability and performance
for a business reasons I need to overly Flash video player with HTML content. This requires the WMODE to be set as "opaque".
However Flash Player Engineering Tinic Uro warns us over lower ...
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Youtube video goes to top from an Iframe
I've got a page with an iframe displaying external website that covers the whole page, on top there's a div with some content, similar to google images new interface.
If in the page contained in the ...
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Safari WIndows and Transparent Flash
// Edit: The issue now appears to be confined to Safari for Windows.
Around the time Safari for Windows 4 came out I started hearing from users that wmode=transparent was no longer working in Safari....
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jQuery: setting wmode to Youtube video for z-index handling
I'm doing this:
//z-index of flash objects
$('object').prepend('<param name="wmode" value="opaque">');
$('object embed').attr('wmode', 'opaque');
So, when I inspect the youtube video on my ...
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Setting wmode for HTML element overlays of jwplayer using javascript
I am trying to overlay a <div> on my jwplayer. I believe in order to do this, I have to set the 'wmode' parameter to be 'transparent.' So far I've been unsuccessful trying it this way:
jwplayer(...
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Youtube video showing on top of JS lightbox
I've got a Youtube video embedded on my webpage and there's a link below the video which brings up a JavaScript lightbox.
When the lightbox appears, it appears over the lightbox.
Any idea why this ...
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Add "wmode" parameter to src of an iframe with PHP
I have had some problems with the z-index of a FLASH- and an overlaying DIV-element.
I've used this jQuery/Javascript solution, which adds the "wmode=transparent" parameter to the "src" of every (...
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Layering HTML element over SWF object with wmode="direct"
I've been searching for a while now about how to layer html element over SWF object and at last what i came up to is (according to Abode):-
Internet Explorer : Doesn't support layering at all.
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Which Flash rendering cases are faster when the wmode embed param is set to "gpu"?
In May 2008 (about three years ago, as of the time of this posting), an engineer who worked on Flash Player 10 wrote the following in a blog post talking about GPU compositing:
Just because the ...
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Add attribute to embed tag using jquery
I have the following embed tag:
<embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="640" height="505" src="url_to_video" allowscriptaccess="always" allowfullscreen="true"></embed>
I have ...
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Show html link over flash object without using wmode="transparent"
On my html page, I have an iframe where I load another html page. This inner html page contains a flash movie. The iframe occupies the whole space on page. On main page, I need to show an html link at ...
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Issues with wmode="opaque" and issues with wmmode="window"
Ok so first I was having 2 issues with default wmode of "window". My web page navigation menus would go under my flex/flash app. The other issue was when scrolling in the flash app the whole page ...
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Haxe flash hardware optimization
It is possible to enabled hardware optimization (wmode) from haxe?
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Safari Flash WMODE not working - anything wrong with this embed?
I've got a problem with this embed in Safari. It works just fine on all other browsers, Internet Explorer 6 included. The problem is that the embed seems to jump to the very top layer, ignoring all z-...
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Object tag to transparent mode
A simple question,
How to detect all <object> tag in the dom and add <param name="wmode" value="transparent"> or change its 'wmode' to transparent using jquery.
Thanks in advance.
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Superfish Css/Jquery Menu goes under Flash Content in IE7
http://mindfulintegrations.com/signiacapital/index.html
It works fine in FF3 and IE8 using SwfObject2 and wmode=transparent, but for the life of me I can not get the menu to dropdown over the flash ...
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wmode parameter for YouTube iframe embed
Setting a wmode parameter when embedding via the YouTube iframe (see Youtube iframe wmode issue) appears to no-longer work, at least in Chrome 14 and reportedly IE as well. I've created this jsfiddle ...
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how is it possible to put a div over a jwplayer5 video?
The problem is that on IE the video jwplayer5 goes over everything, and my goal is the user to avoid to click over the video, to prevent PLAY/PAUSE effects.
i was suggested to put a div over the video,...
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IE9 z-index issue with embedded video
I'm trying to make a YouTube video that is embedded as an iframe pop up in a modal window. I have it successfully working in Chrome and Firefox, but it will not work in IE. The Flash video seems to ...
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Showing div over flash content embedded in a website in iframe
I am going through the questions around various forums for the answer for this one but none seems to be working for me.
I have embedded a 3rd party website in an iframe. The website has some flash ...
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Flash overlays thickbox on Internet Explorer
Here's my code:
I've got a flash slideshow on my page. I've used thickbox for login but when someone clicks on the login, the flash overlays thickbox.
I've managed to solve the problem on Firefox, ...
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Quicktime - Wmode Transparent problem
Embedding a Quicktime video on a page as a graceful fallback for the IE family of browsers (no flash / html5). I have a div overlaying the video later on, so the Quicktime embed must be wmode=...
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How can I know the default wmode value of an object element?
I am debugging a webpage with some flash objects which have no wmode set. I need to know which value the browser or flash player is assigning to them.
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FancyBox 2 YouTube wmode parameter not activating
For some reason I can't get absolutely position elements with a z-index set to 9999 to appear over my FancyBox with YouTube iframe, even though I have my wmode parameter set to opaque, even the 'X' ...
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Flash overlapping / wmode Issue
I experience the very known flash / html overlay issue in Google Chrome (16.0.912.75 m) and Safari (5.1.1). As suggested here and here I have set the wmode attribute to transparent - and tried opaque, ...
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Setting wmode="transparent" doesn't work with Flex app and SWFObject?
I am using SWFObject to embed a Flex (4.1 SDK) made application in an HTML page like in the code sample below:
var swfVersionStr="10.0.0";
var xiSwfUrlStr="playerProductInstall.swf";
var flashvars={};...
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PrettyPhoto annd youtube videos overlay
I have a webpage with prettyPhoto and a youtube video inside the web page.
With jquery I do:
$("#youtubevideo embed").attr("wmode", "opaque");
also tried $("#youtubevideo embed").attr("wmode", "...
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how to put html content over flash when wmode=window?
Is this even possible?
The situation is, I don't control the embedded flash, and I have no way of knowing whether it is embedded with wmode=tranparent/opaque or wmode=window. This means in the first ...
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overlay opaque div over gametrailers iframe
Recently gametrailers changed their embed code from:
<embed width="960" height="540" src="http://media.mtvnservices.com/mgid:moses:video:gametrailers.com:722265" quality="high" bgcolor="000000" ...
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Can I have transparent background in fullscreen flash?
Is there a way to get transparent background when in fullscreen mode in flash? I tried the following:
<!DOCTYPE HTML>
<html>
<head>
<style type="text/css">
body{background:...
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IE Scrolling Issue when Flash wmode is set to opaque
This would be for a Flash game within Facebook. If you have a Flash object in IE, when you use the up and down arrow keys it causes the entire browser to scroll. IF you have a game that requires the ...
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Force wmode on flash content with javascript
I'm using a modal window on a client's site where we have no access to the content. The problem is that he has some flash on the page and the wmode for these is not set to transparent.
Is there a ...
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Youtube embed with wmode=transparent not working
I'm embedding youtube videos using the AngularJS code below but somehow all the menu and sidebar div is showing on top and not working. I have tried both wmode=transparent and wmode=opaque with no ...
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YouTube content covers my css dropdown menu in ie 11
YouTube content covers my css dropdown menu in ie 11. I have tried various fixes that I found here and none has worked. http://www.marinwaldorf.org/ FYI I am limited in knowledge to css and html ....
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Flowplayer wmode="transparent" issue
I need to add '<param name="wmode" value="transparent" />' tag into FlowPlayer's <object> tag.
I tried the setup below:
$f("dvVideo", "/js/flowplayer.commercial-3.2.18.swf", { wmode: '...
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C# Playing a flash video causes an error with wmode=direct
I'm trying to play a flash movie inside of my C# window forms application, everything goes well and I can successfully load my .swf files.
However one of my flash files will not work as it requires ...
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Z-index and wmode not working with YouTube embed code in IE10
I'm trying to create a div that will cover an iframe containing YouTube embed code, so when the user clicks on the video, javascript will fire instead of playing the video. I have included the wmode=...
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IE9 wmode transparent is showing background color in the flash player
I'm having a little problem with IE9 and wmode transparent. This works good in Chrome and FireFox.
I am using Windows 7 (64-bit). My flash played version is 11.7.700.224
I recently made a change to ...
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SoundCloud Widget and Flash wmode
The SoundCloud HTML5 widget is embedded as an <iframe>, but it will fallback to using Flash if the browser does not support the required HTML5 components. Unfortunately, the Flash player does ...
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Flash - how to turn off the "Enable hardware acceleration" window?
We have a piece of swf embedded for recording (the wami-recorder).
The issue is that some clients experience that the window for enabling hardware acceleration always pops up.
Instead of this, ...
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How do I make a fixed header that will cover iframes containing flash ads as my page scrolls?
I cannot use wmode=transparent/opaque in the flash object to force it to obey my page's zindex because of the ad provider-controlled cross-domain iframe.
I've tried to use Google closure's ...
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SiSTeR. Can't set the "wmode" param for flash
I am new in a project. I have to fix a bug with wmode param. The project uses SiSTeR.
Trying to configure as SiSTeR.Config.wmode = "transparent"; makes no effect.
What I am doing wrong?
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