How do I place HTML content above a Flash movie?

Question

A site I\'m working on has Flash headers (using swfobject to embed them). Now I\'m required to code in a bit of HTML that\'s supposed to overlap the Flash movie.

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Answer 1

Follow-up note: As you found in your update, getting HTML to display on top of Flash is currently a finicky proposition, and even with the JS magic you found you should expect that the Flash will block out your HTML for some viewers using off-browsers, older versions, and so on.

If reaching an arbitrarily large browsing audience is important to you (mobile devices, for example), then redesigning your content to avoid the overlap may save you headaches in the long run.