Posted by Adrienne Boswell on 04/06/07 06:25

Gazing into my crystal ball I observed sinrise@gmail.com writing in
news:1175834504.280443.83010@p77g2000hsh.googlegroups.com:

> I have a Flash drop-down menu that is 800x200 pixels. It has a
> transparent background and drops down over the rest of my page, which
> is all html. In Firefox, everything under that 200px flash swf cannot
> be clicked on, including my form elements. This is not the case in
> IE6. Everything under the transparent area works fine.
>
> http://www.hydramediagroup.net/lucastemp/events.html
>
> I've scoured the web and google groups and found a few topics
> regarding this problem but no answers as of yet. Please someone help!
>
>

You know, I have come to really hate flash menus. What's wrong with a
regular menu? A lot of the time, I have flash turned off, simply because
a lot of moving things are annoying and distracting. Then I come to some
site that looks interesting and I can't navigate because of a flash menu.

I don't know what kind of program you used to generate this, but I would
throw it in the trash. Abuse of tables and abuse of form elements.
Don't nest tables, and don't use textarea just because it scrolls.
Tables are for tabular data, not for positioning elements. Forms are
used to let a user interact with the application, not for presentation.

You have 3 markup errors, one of which is so bad that I cannot validate
your CSS. Interestingly enough, when I view the page without CSS, I can
get to the "form" without any problem.

Please consider is the fact that Join the Wine Club is not visible with
images disabled. Don't you want visually disabled people to join the
club, or people who may have disabled images because they are on a slow
connection?

Additionally, is the textarea background supposed to be pale blue? I
have my background set to that color, and if the author did not specify a
background color, my pale blue will show. You might also want to think
about contrasting colors, the contrast may not be large enough for
visitors with low vision problems.

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