Displaying a DHTML layer over a Silverlight UI...

Question

I have a MOSS 2007 publishing site which incorporates some Silverlight components on various pages. Beyond a few areas the rest of the site is SharePoint and ASPX (i.e. standard HTML/javascript).

I'm looking at incorporating a dynamic/dropdown menu to the main navigation. Unfortunately on a few of the pages the menu sits close to a Silverlight area and, when a menu is pulled down it falls "behind" the Silverlight block.

Is there something simple I'm not doing or is there a limitation that Silverlight always be on top of dynamic content displayed via the rest of the HTML DOM?

Any ideas?

-Kevin

Answer 1

have you tried the CSS property: z-index?

Answer 2

In order for Silverlight to appear behind other HTML elements the silverlight plugin needs to run in windowless mode. You can configure that using a param on the object tag.

          <param name="windowless" value="true" />

Note that is can degrade performance and is not recommended if you are displaying video or making heavy use of complex animations.