Question

Greetings,
I have written a modal using jquery UI and it appears at the front of a flash movie thus the html inside the modal becomes corrupt, I tried to hide the movie right before modal gets triggered and reappears after closing the modal, works well but each .hide() and .show() the flash movie gets resetted while all I want is to hide (without removing the movie) and displaying it once it is triggered to .show that modal div.

Answer 1

Tested in FF/linux, FF/WinXp, IE/WinXp, Safari/WinXp:

• put your flash container DIV into a new DIV with overflow:hidden.

basic:

• to hide flash-div: $(‘#id_div_with_swf’).css(“left”,”-2000px”);
• to show flash-div: $(‘#id_div_with_swf’).css(“left”,”0px”);

or, show and hide with animation effects:

• to hide flash-div: $(‘#id_div_with_swf’).animate({ left: “-2000px”},1000);
• to show flash-div: $(‘#id_div_with_swf’).animate({ left: “0”},1000);

html example:

<div style="width:200px; height:100px; overflow:hidden;">
<div id="id_div_with_swf" style="width:200px; height:100px; position:relative; left:0px; top:0px;">
<!-- flash here -->
</div>
</div>

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you can’t get a cross-browser working solution with .css(‘visibility’, ‘visible’/’hidden’)