Displaying PDF in page and forcing z-index to work?

[1DMF]

Hi,

I'm having a big problem getting a PDF to display in the browser and have my popout menu display over the top.

I've tried iframe and embed and assigned low z-index's to both, but nothing seems to work. the PDF is blocking the display of the pop out menu.

How do i get round this and force the PDF to be a bottom layer and allow other elements to float over the top in a higher layer position.

thanks,

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[ChrisHirst]

use wmode="transparent" as you would for Flash objects.

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[1DMF]

Doesn't seem to work, I assume it's an attribute of either the embed or iframe tag?

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[1DMF]

forgot to post code...

document.getElementById('statement').innerHTML='<embed wmode="transparent" style="width:780px; height:780px; border:1px solid #233e97; margin-bottom:5px; z-index:1; position:absolute;" src="/cgi-bin/myCGI.pl?DOC=' + docid + '.pdf">';

The work around i'm using is to use an iframe and make the iframe object 'display:none;' when the menu is hovered over, but that's far from ideal!

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