SWFObject and positioning

Question

How can I specifically position the flash element embeded using SWFObject please? Moving it's container DIV around with absolute positioning and top and bottom set doesn't seem to work.

Thank you.

Contraption

There shouldn't be any reason why this wouldn't work. Can you provide some HTML/CSS? – Hadron

Answer 1

@Francisc: Try --

<div id="container-div-with-the-positioning-rules">
     <div id="flash-to-be-replaced">
         Your alternate content if the user doesn't have Flash installed
     </div>
</div>

Please note, this might not be the most elegant solution since it's adding an additional <div>, but having had the same problem before, this is basically how I solved it. It might give you something to build on or perhaps some of the other participants on here will have better solutions.

Granthem

Thank you stealthyninja! When did you answer, I didn't even see you! – Contraption

About seventeen minutes after your posted your question, it seems. As for not seeing me, stealthyninja... ;-) – Granthem

@Francisc: Apologies; it seems that whoosh sound wasn't me, it was your joke going over my head. ;-P – Granthem

Answer 2

I'd vote up or comment on stealthyninja's response, but I can't because I don't have enough rep. But yeah, you have to add another div around the "flash-to-be-replaced" div because SWFObject changes that div to an object tag or something else that CSS can't do anything about.

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