No two ways about it – overlapping text is bad. When text overlaps on a page, it's confusing and can make the page entirely unreadable. If the visitor can't read a page, they're not going to stay. If ...

question:<BR><BR>if I have a flash movie in a div layer... can I have another div layer overlapping it in anyway? (the second div layer would be in HTML... say just plain text that over laps the flash ...