I got a video element on a page that's working fine both in safari mobile and desktop. I have a seme-transparent pull-down menu that's working fine. The problem is, when the menu is over the video element, on the desktop safari i can see the video under the menu (as desired), while on the mobile version the video element stay on the foreground (ugly) no matter what i tell the css. Is there any workaround?
The issue only occurs if the video element was dynamically created. If the element was just in the page as it loaded, z-index works fine.
You can fix z-index on dynamically created videos by giving the video element -webkit-transform-style: preserve-3d.
Yep, it's as bad as haslayout on IE!
When you have an element you want to be in front of your <video> in Safari, you need to set into that element the transform: translateZ(1px) or more pixels, as Safari is setting to your <video> element a 0 value for Z axis (transform: translateZ(0)).
This is the only thing it worked to me. No z-index, no transform-style:preserve-3d.
I had this problem which was occurring on mobile devices with an off canvas menu. When the menu was over the video you could not tap any of the menu items.
I fixed it my moving the video somewhere else when the menu was on by positioning it absolutely at -100000px when the menu was not displayed it set it back being positioned relatively.
I found using display none did not work as when you set it to block again the video would not work.
I also tried setting the height to 0 - this did not work as the video still seemed to take up the space even though you couldn't see it.
The final method seems a bit extreme but it is not really noticeable when it is being used.
