{Jon hangs his head in shame for not thinking this through!} OMG, I tried setting the parent and the grandparents z-index to bring it over the lower container without "going over" the nav! It never occurred to me to do the great-grandparent too!
Thank you, thank you, thank you Joel! Now back to the client amends for the rest of the site! (although, I will pass this one on, in FF on a Mac, the menu still pushes the flash object down as it expands? But works fine over images?) In deepest gratitude, Jon On Oct 11, 10:18 am, "Joel Birch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jon replied to me offlist with a secret link. I thought I would reply > with a solution here for completion's sake incase it helps anyone > else. > > Long story short, IE has a thing about great-great-etc-grandparents > having z-index set. This should fix the issue for you Jon: > > #header { z-index: 99; } > > Good luck. > > Joel Birch.