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medihack
medihack

Reputation: 16627

Position absolute and overflow hidden

We have two DIVs, one embedded in the other. If the outer DIV is not positioned absolute then the inner DIV, which is positioned absolute, does not obey the overflow hidden of the outer DIV.

#first {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    background-color: green;
    overflow: hidden;
}

#second {
    width: 50px;
    height: 50px;
    background-color: red;
    position: absolute;
    left: 250px;
    top: 250px;
}
<div id="first">
    <div id="second"></div>
    <div id="third"></div>
</div>

Is there any chance to make the inner DIV obey the overflow hidden of the outer DIV without setting the outer DIV to position absolute (cause that will muck up our complete layout)? Also position relative for our inner DIV isn't an option as we need to "grow out" of a table TD.

#first {
    width: 200px;
    height: 200px;
    background-color: green;
}

#second {
    width: 50px;
    height: 400px;
    background-color: red;
    position: relative;
    left: 0px;
    top: 0px;
}
<table id="first">
    <tr>
        <td>
            <div id="second"></div>
        </td>
    </tr>
</table>

Are there any other options?

Upvotes: 197

Views: 275318

Answers (6)

Tom
Tom

Reputation: 1649

Ran into this issue with a radial background gradient. If the above solutions clip parts of your element, just apply the position relative to the html body instead of a direct parent.

body {
  position: relative;
  overflow-x: hidden;
}

Upvotes: 0

ravindra
ravindra

Reputation: 47

Make sure.

  1. parent position relative.
  2. parent have manually assigned width and height(important as child element having absolute position).
  3. child position absolute;

.outer{
   position:relative;
   width:200px; 
   height:100px;
   overflow:hidden;
}

.inner{
   position:absolute;
   width:100px;
   height:100px;
   font-size:3rem;
}
<div class="outer">
<div class=inner>
Inner DIV to apply overflw hidden
</div>
</div>

}

Upvotes: 2

Si7ius
Si7ius

Reputation: 748

An absolutely positioned element is actually positioned regarding a relative parent, or the nearest found relative parent. So the element with overflow: hidden should be between relative and absolute positioned elements:

<div class="relative-parent">
  <div class="hiding-parent">
    <div class="child"></div>
  </div>
</div>

.relative-parent {
  position:relative;
}
.hiding-parent {
  overflow:hidden;
}
.child {
  position:absolute; 
}

Upvotes: 30

shankhan
shankhan

Reputation: 6571

Make outer <div> to position: relative and inner <div> to position: absolute. It should work for you.

Upvotes: 385

rochano
rochano

Reputation: 37

You just make divs like this:

<div style="width:100px; height: 100px; border:1px solid; overflow:hidden; ">
    <br/>
    <div style="position:inherit; width: 200px; height:200px; background:yellow;">
        <br/>
        <div style="position:absolute; width: 500px; height:50px; background:Pink; z-index: 99;">
            <br/>
        </div>
    </div>
</div>

I hope this code will help you :)

Upvotes: -4

Tesserex
Tesserex

Reputation: 17314

What about position: relative for the outer div? In the example that hides the inner one. It also won't move it in its layout since you don't specify a top or left.

Upvotes: 32

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