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David A
David A

Reputation: 603

CSS overflow hidden with absolute position

I want to absolute position an image that I will be moving around in a div and want anything that extends outside the div to be clipped. Here is an example of the problem:

<html>
<body>
  <div style="width: 500px; height: 200px; border: 1px solid black; overflow: hidden;">
    <div style="width: 200px; height: 50px; margin: auto; border: 1px solid black; background: gray;">On top of image.</div>
    <div style="position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 250px; z-index: -1;"><img src="http://www.google.com/logos/worldcupfinale10-hp.gif" /></div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

So, I want the right edge of the logo to not display. Ideas?

Upvotes: 60

Views: 102054

Answers (3)

Brian Moeskau
Brian Moeskau

Reputation: 20431

Try adding position: relative to your outer div. This will position the image relative to that div (honoring the overflow style) instead of relative to the page.

Example:

<html>
<body>
  <div style="position: relative; width: 500px; height: 200px; border: 1px solid black; overflow: hidden;">
    <div style="width: 200px; height: 50px; margin: auto; border: 1px solid black; background: gray;">On top of image.</div>
    <div style="position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 250px; z-index: -1;"><img src="http://www.google.com/logos/worldcupfinale10-hp.gif" /></div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

See it on JS Bin

Upvotes: 124

Christos Hrousis
Christos Hrousis

Reputation: 715

Move the position absolute to the image, then add the relative to the parent container. Worked for me in a similar situation.

<html>
<body>
  <div style="width: 500px; height: 200px; border: 1px solid black; overflow: hidden;">
    <div style="width: 200px; height: 50px; margin: auto; border: 1px solid black; background: gray;">On top of image.</div>
    <div style="position: relative; overflow:hidden;"><img style="position: absolute; top: 10px; left: 250px; z-index: -1;" src="http://www.google.com/logos/worldcupfinale10-hp.gif" /></div>
  </div>
</body>
</html>

Upvotes: 2

Brock Adams
Brock Adams

Reputation: 93633

Since the image's container is positioned absolutely, it is outside of the flow of the "containing" div.

Your choices are to either position relatively or to adjust the dimensions of the absolutely-positioned div, dynamically, with jQuery.

Upvotes: 24

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