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Suckerfish Drop Down Menu Over SIFR Header Replacement Flash Movie.

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At this point we all know that in order to get drop down menus, like Suckerfish, to hang over flash movies you will need to make the flash movie have a transparent value for the wmode parameter. I ran into an issue one time with drop down menus hanging over my SIFR headers. Here is the code that I used to fix the problem:

<script type="text/javascript">
   //<![CDATA[
  /* Replacement calls. Please see documentation for more information. */

if(typeof sIFR == "function"){

 // This is the preferred "named argument" syntax
sIFR.replaceElement(named({
sSelector:"body h1",
sFlashSrc:"/swf/fonts/fontname.swf",
sWmode: "transparent",
sColor:"#bc4313",
sLinkColor:"#bc4313",
sBgColor:"#ffffff",
sHoverColor:"#bc4313",
nPaddingTop:5,
nPaddingBottom:5,
sFlashVars:"textalign=left&offsetTop=0"
}));

};

//]]>
  </script>

Simply noting this piece of code in particular:

sWmode: "transparent"

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