Matthew, This seems to be working for me. I just changed the overlay positioning to use:
left: 10px; http://malsup.com/jquery/cycle/test.html Mike > I'm using M. Alsup's Cycle plugin to transition between a series of > images. This is working as expected, but I'm having problems getting > an additional image to appear "above" them, at a higher z-index. I've > tried giving both elements a fixed z-index, and by using a transparent > slide I'm able to verify that the overlay is being positioned > correctly, but it seems like something is interfering with the normal > z-index rules.