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Hi everyone,
I don't know how to place a div overlay or image on top of an embedded media player. I need to be able to put it on top of windows media player, quicktime player, divx player. And I need it to work in IE, FireFox, and Safari.
Thank you in advance for your help -
It's an iffy proposition at best.
The problem is that the player-- a plugin-- is a completely different program than the browser. The browser-- the interpreter of your HTML and CSS-- knows nothing about what the plugin you're asking for will do, and the plugin rarely-if-ever knows the context of the Web page that it's in. We can hope that the interface in the browser and the the plugin itself can get along together in a way that preserves HTML/CSS stacking integrity, but in some cases (overlay video, for instance) the plugin may write itself atop all layers of the browser window. Since it's running in it's own universe, it's completely beyond the control of browser-based HTML or CSS.
Flash, IIRC, has been pretty good at obeying stacking order and other CSS positioning directives, assuming you set it wmode to transparent. OTOH, I have seen it flicker or overtake things like menus when there's action or overlay video. It's just not a good idea to depend on browser-based content showing above a plugin.
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