248059 - flash loses interactivity inside a div with overflow: auto; property

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 248054

(Firefox :: General, defect)

Description

[Karl Jayne]

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.7) Gecko/20040614 Firefox/0.8

The page http://karljayne.com/flash/test.html is an example of a Transparent
Windowless Flash swf placed within a DIV with a style of overflow: auto;. With
that property the swf loses it's interactivity in FireFox. Here is an example of
the same swf in a div with no overflow property. As you can see the
interactivity has returned.

This problem seems to relate to the way Mozilla handles Windowless Transparent
and the CSS property overflow. The problem exists in FireFox as well as Mozilla 1.7.

Interestingly enough, overflow works fine without a swf inside it AND
interactive swfs work fine inside divs as long as overflow is not set.

This seems like a layer ordering issue, as if the swf gets pushed backward (?)
if overflow is set. Works fine on IE.


Reproducible: Always
Steps to Reproduce:
1.build an interactive flash swf and publish it as windowless transparent
2.put a <div style="">around the swf source</div>
3.open in mozilla or firefox

Actual Results:  
Mozilla and FireFox lose the Flash interactive hooks.

Expected Results:  
The flash swf should be interactive. You can open it with Explorer and it works,
for example.

This is not a crash bug, but does appear to be a compliancy issue.

Comment 1

[Kevin Brosnan]

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 248054 ***