Hide Flash div without restarting movie/applet
I ran into an issue today with Flash and targeting the div wrapper (when using SWFObject). Basically, there seems to be a bug in Firefox (and possibly other browsers) that causes the applet to reload when changing its display state. I found that instead of using
document.getElementById('flash_div').style.display = 'none';
that by using an explicit dimension you can achieve the same result without restarting the applet:
document.getElementById('flash_div').style.height = '0px';
Not sure if Firefox 3 addresses this. I’m guessing it does.
EDIT
ARGH. Setting the height to 0 definitely hides it, but little pieces of the flash are still active. Guess it’s an official “bug.”
Have you tried visiblity = “hidden”; ?
I think we dealt with this on paigehemmis.com a little bit… How did you end up resolving this?
Comment by Jordan — February 20, 2008 @ 11:48 pm
Fixed this problem by have a floating div which the flash object replaces using SWF. Then just set the height of the object every time I wanted to show or hide. Works perfect
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