It's been a while.  I figured I restart it in light of *some people* saying all I do is criticize.

Actually, this is more in form of a question:

I have a page.  Page has a form with fields.  I also have a flash movie that, based on certain actions, flies onto screen and over the form.  Problem? Form fields bleed through the flash movie.

Solution?  I don't want the form fields to bleed through the flash movie. It doesn't look professional at all. This is where you come in.

I await your responses.

Try set the stack order of the elements with z-index.

Nice answer and that is exactly what I did when I first encountered the problem.  Guess what?  I forget which but it worked in one browser but not the other so I had to go back to the chopping board.  I am afraid I will have to strike down this answer.

Good answer though.  Again, it's the first thing I did though it didn't work cross-browser.

To clarify:
When the flash movie zooms into view (by means of a trigger which was clicking on a link on the page), it covers half the form, leaving the other half below it visible.  This doesn't necessarily change the equation or drop any hints.  Just an FYI.

More answers please.  This first one definitely got the ball rolling in the right direction.

Are you build a web form with fields in Flash using PHP, Flash Form components and actionscript?

If yes, OH THAT IS EASY! Here is a HOW-TO tutorial link at below:

http://www.devshed.com/c/a/Flash/Building-Web-Forms-In-Flash/

I built my own web form in Flash to employ actions/behaviors resulting in PHP, MySQL, and Flash Actionscript on the fly Flash-based website many times---other than Contact Form. I built web forms for protected pages with secured login access system, questionnaires, registration, price quotes, and all kind of pre-printed repeated manual form converting into dynamically!

For cross-browser compatible, you will need to add script accepting all browsers using Javascript or PHP that support in Flash.

uspry1,

I don't quite understand where you are coming from but I have read the article.  Though it makes sense, it didn't apply to my situation. 

More clarification:
The form already existed as HTML on the site I was working on.  The flash movie was sent over by a third party who had paid for advertising on the site.  In essence, we were not about to rework our HTML form (responsible for 80% of our revenue at the time) for a flash movie that would last just for a few weeks.  Also, this probably doesn't mean anything, but the site was in JSP.

Even More Clarification:
This isn't a recent problem.  It is something I had to deal with in april 2007.  The solution is already out there so I am not posting this seeking a solution.  I am only posting to share a solution that I think was pretty slick for what I was trying to accomplish.  I am trying to get us to think outside of the box.

Again, good answer but not quite what I am looking for.  I feel it's getting close though 

Well, no more responses so let me state how I took care of the problem:

As I said, the form covered half the form fields. After trying everything, it hit me that I could take advantage of a CSS property via javascript: visibility: visible/hidden.

Short digression:
For those who don't know, visibility: visible/hidden and display: block do pretty much the same thing. The difference is that whereas the former preserves the space of "disappearing" elements, the latter removes it altogether, causing the remaining elements to "rise to the top" to take up the space.

So I ran a javascript loop through the form elements and stopped the loop at the form element just below the botom of the flash movie. Then for each of those, I did "visibility: hidden". This was triggered when I did on onclick of the link that ushered in the flash movie. Something like this:

for(i=0; i<=formfields.length;i++) {
formfield.style.visibility= "hidden"
}

by the way, I also changed the text of the link from the original "click to open" to "click to close". then wen you click the "close", i have another onclick function that reverses the visibility of the form fields to "visible".

That's how i did it. Though it was a year ago, if anyone, given my constraints at the time, has a better way, do share so I and others can use it on future projects. If you have any questions as well, post them here.

Thanks

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