Ikea... Dropdown Menu oops!

Jan 25, 2010

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Ikea made a pretty big oops on their United Kingdom site today. On their homepage, somebody scheduled a large flash mod, but didn't set the wmode correctly. They used a variable in their embed tag I haven't seen used before, flashvars="wmode=transparent", when they should have just done wmode="transparent". This is still surprisingly a common mistake on sites that combine flash elements with good ol' html, css and javascript. Unfortunately, there is no way to fix this by assigning z-indexes to the holder for the flash element and the navigation, the flash must have the wmode set to transparent.

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Here is their source code:

<div id="flashcontent_used" class="firstFlashContent" style="">
 <embed
   width="900"
   height="370"
   flashvars="wmode=transparent" <- The Rogue code
   quality="high"
   bgcolor="#ffffff"
   name="sultan_nlp"
   id="sultan_nlp"
   style=""
   src="/ms/en_GB/flash/homepage/sultan_new_lower_price.swf"
   type="application/x-shockwave-flash"
  />
</div>

Remove that line and add wmode="transparent" and everything would work kosher.

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This is why edits edits edits (check out the blog post) are so important!

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posted by Tim Avery at 4:18 PM ©

1 Comments:

Blogger Sam said...

Ikea isn't the only company that has made major mistakes recently...

posted: January 28, 2010 1:40 PM  

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