YouTube Videos / Admin Index Accordion

I have a couple of YouTube videos with the usual object, param, and embed tags that I have placed as content (in source view) on a couple of different site pages. They appear/play fine on the test site (on my test server) pages, and they appear as they should on their respective "View/Edit Content" PowerCMS admin pages. However, they also appear arbitrarily on the admin index page, outside of the accordion, partially covering up the accordion panels and the header links at the top of the page. When I open the two accordion panels where they should be located all is fine, and they occupy their expected positions. Any ideas why they are appearing on top of the accordion panels instead of staying hidden until the panel is opened? Is this a "spry" or powerCMS limitation/bug?

Thanks,
Robert

Does it have anything to do with z-index?

I don't think this is a style (z-index) issue, but I have not tested it. I did try the videos on a page with a Spry accordion, outside the context of PowerCMS just to see if the problem could be replicated there, but it appears to work fine within Spry, i.e. the videos were hidden inside the panel content areas until the panels were opened.

Robert

I'm not sure if what you are experiencing is the same thing but I have seen flash videos on sites do similar things. In those cases that I have seen the fix was a combination of css and an extra parameter for the video.

For the css you should check the positioning of the div for you spry and also the movie, if one is relative and the other absolute you can get some issues like this. The other css thing to check is the z-index, if the positioning for the objects is the same then the z-index will dictate their stacking order.

The other part is an attribute for the objects params. If you have the wmode attribute present or available make sure it is set to transparent. Like I said I have only seen this with Flash videos but the result of it seems similar to what you are describing.

Thanks Eric. To be clear the problem only appears within the admin of PowerCMS. I do not have a problem within the Adobe Spry accordion, or on a typical web page. The problem is probably moot anyway, as far as PowerCMS is concerned, as the video can only be added using code via the PowerCMS source view anyway, and most clients would not be capable of that level of complexity. I think the simplest solution is to not include the video within a defined content area. To add/edit movies they will just have to call me.

Robert