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TinyMCE color picker dropdown appears off-screen

This is an issue on Firefox and IE so far that I've tested; the problem does not exist on Chrome.
I'm including two TinyMCE editors on a page with one partially off-screen to start. When I select the color picker dropdown option from the toolbar on the first TinyMCE instance, the dropdown appears where it should. But if I scroll down and select the color picker dropdown in the second instance, that dropdown appears way below the editor and typically off the page.
You can see this in action here: http://jsfiddle.net/nm6wtca3/
Without removing the html, body CSS, what can I do to have the color picker always appear in the correct position?
I've traced the problem down to setting CSS on the html, body elements.
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
The dropdown div has CSS applied to it that is auto-calculated by TinyMCE. It looks something like this:
z-index: 65535;
left: 641.467px;
top: 633px;
width: 162px;
height: 105px;
How it appears in FF (sometimes way worse):
How it appears in Chrome (how it should look):

You did say you don't want to remove any CSS from the html,body, but you didn't say anything about adding to it! This solution is based on the assumption that you can add to the html,body
Solution
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
overflow-x: hidden;
position: relative; /* Line added */
}
JSFiddle Example
I hope this helps. In all reality, you really only need to apply position: relative; to the body like so body { position: relative; }

I'm not super familiar with tinymce's colorpicker, but I can see the issue, and I can replicate it reliably: your problem occurs when you have a picker open, and then you scroll. I can replicate this in chrome too. Here's a video.
When I look at the DOM, I see that tinyMCE has created two absolute-positioned divs at the end of document.body, one for each picker. When you open one, their position is updated to reflect the location of the toolbar-button at the time you clicked it, but it never gets updated when you scroll!
So, how to solve this? Well, there are a few possibilities:
Option 1: it looks like tinyMCE provides a method to bind a control to an event (here). With this, you could bind a callback to 'scroll' that repositions the box...
Huh, now that I think of it, you could simply close any open colorpickers whenever a user scrolls ... kinda feels like a cop-out but there's no denying it has the best R.O.I. ;) We'll call that Option 2!
Option 3: depending on the implementation of the colorpicker, you may be able to override where in the DOM those divs get rendered. The API method I saw that looked the most promising is here. Once you have the div inside a relative-positioned parent, you'd also have to make the colorpicker's positioning algorithm smart enough to look in the right place for x and y offset ...when I tried this by just moving the element and mashing in some css by hand in chrome-console, the algorithm still computed x and y offsets based on doc.body, so depending on where you were scrolled at click-time, everything would be out of position
It looks like this issue might be troubling other people as well... maybe they've found a solution but haven't posted anything about it?
I hope this is enough info to get you past the problem... Let me know if you have any questions!

It looks like the problem is caused by overflow-x: hidden;
It may not be the answer you want but removing that or moving it to a page wrapper will solve your problem.
Working Example
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
padding:0;
margin:0;
}
#pagewrapper{
overflow-x: hidden;
}
Another option would be to force repositioning on scroll, but honestly this is overkill... I strongly recommend fixing the css instead.
Another working example
$('body').scroll(posfix); // when the body scrolls
$('#mceu_10').click(posfix); // when you click the top font color button
$('#mceu_35').click(posfix); // when you click the bottom font color button
function posfix() {
setTimeout(function () { // hack way to ensure it fires after the menu is shown
$('#mceu_51').css({
top: $('#mceu_10').offset().top + $('#mceu_10').height(), // set top/left based on button's position
left: $('#mceu_10').offset().left + $('#mceu_10').width() / 2
});
$('#mceu_52').css({
top: $('#mceu_35').offset().top + $('#mceu_35').height(),
left: $('#mceu_35').offset().left + $('#mceu_35').width() / 2
});
}, 1);
}

it works on firefox, and Internet Explorer fine
just remove this css code
html, body {
width: 100%;
height: 100%;
overflow-x: hidden;
}

Please take a look at this:
html,
body {
width: auto;
height: auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
}
You can simply set body width and height to auto, then there won't be any need to use position and you don't have to remove anything. I think you do not need to use height: 100% since it will be auto-calculated by TinyMCE. i hope it helped.
Update
Look at the screen shot from chrome and its same in firefox. And i didn't remove any css but just changed..and by putting 100% in css the output will be like :-
Please check this one with auto but not 100%..thank you

How to hide scroll bar but want to it keep working

Here is code
#scroll{
overflow-y:scroll;
max-height:500px;
width:267px;}
I explored it on Stackoverflow and i got many answers but they were explained with two conatiners in HTML but i have only one div and want to apply it on that. THANKS

You should look into parent child approach as it is the recommended one. Give your element scroll bars, wrap it in a
containing element, and make the containing element element smaller, and give it:
overflow: hidden;
In your current scenario you can do this pure CSS.
Hide scroll bars in Webkit-based browsers (Chrome and Safari).
.element::-webkit-scrollbar { width: 0 !important }
Hide scrollbars in IE 10+.
.element { -ms-overflow-style: none; }
Hide scrollbars in Firefox, but it has been deprecated.
.element { overflow: -moz-scrollbars-none; }
JSFiddle

Minimum / Maximum absolute position in CSS

What is the best approach to restricting an absolutely positioned element's position, ideally in pure CSS?
I know that the following isn't possible but I guess what I'm looking for would look something like:
.stickyElement{
bottom-max:auto;
bottom-min:0px;
top-max: auto;
top-min: 100px;
}
That would allow an element to move to a position no less than 100px from the top of it's containing, positioned element.
An example (and my initial) use case for this is a menu that scrolls as part of a page but stops scrolling when it hits the top of a viewport. (Sticky menus?) an example of which can be seen on this page:
http://spektrummedia.com/startups
I fully expect that this is not possible without using some Javascript but I thought I'd put it out there.

position: sticky
There have been discussions in the W3C about this in recent years. One proposal is the addition of a sticky value for the position property.
.content {
position: -webkit-sticky;
position: -moz-sticky;
position: -ms-sticky;
position: -o-sticky;
position: sticky;
top: 10px;
}
This is currently supported in Chrome 23.0.1247.0 and later as an experimental feature. To enable it, enter about:flags for the URL address and press enter. Then search for "experimental WebKit features" and toggle it between enabled and disabled.
On the html5rocks website, there's a working demo.
Strictly speaking, this is an implementation of sticky content, and not a general-purpose way to limit the minimum or maximum position of an element relative to another element. However, sticky content might be the only practical application for the type of the behavior you're describing.

As there is no way to build this for all major browsers without the use of JavasScript I made my own solution with jQuery:
Assign position:relative to your sticky-top-menu. When it reaches the top of the browser window through scrolling the position is changed to positon:fixed.
Also give your sticky-top-menu top:0 to make sure that it sticks to the top of your browser window.
Here you find a working JSFiddle Example.
HTML
<header>I'm the Header</header>
<div class="sticky-top-menu">
<nav>
Page 1
Page 2
</nav>
</div>
<div class="content">
<p>Some content...</p>
</div>
jQuery
$(window).scroll(function () {
var headerTop = $("header").offset().top + $("header").outerHeight();
if ($(window).scrollTop() > headerTop) {
//when the header reaches the top of the window change position to fixed
$(".sticky-top-menu").css("position", "fixed");
} else {
//put position back to relative
$(".sticky-top-menu").css("position", "relative");
}
});
CSS
.sticky-top-menu {
position:relative;
top: 0px;
width: 100%;
}

I know this post is old, and I might be a little late to it, but to anyone still wondering how to do this i would suggest checking out the clamp() method in CSS, you could do something like this:
top: clamp(30px, 10vw, 50px);
Which would set the min top value to 30px, the ideal value to 10vw, and the max value to 50px.

A media query expression that defines the distance between body 0X 0Y and browser-window 0X 0Y would allow elements to be made sticky after page is scrolled
No such expression has otherwise been proposed and is not supported by any browser, to my knowledge, but it would be a useful expression to allow dynamic configuration of sticky elements, such as menu bars that are sticky after page is scrolled past head, without use of JavaScript.
.this element {
position: absolute;
top: 200px;
}
#media (max-scroll: 200px 0) {
.this.element {
position:fixed;
top: 0;
}
}

To my knowledge, there is no way to restrict an element that was positioned using absolute positioning using solely CSS.

IE6 onscroll glitch

I have a <div> with some content. I gave this div an id attribute, oDIV, and bound a function to the onscroll event via this small script:
window.onload = {
document.getElementById("oDiv").onscroll = function() {
document.getElementById("tooltip").className = "sTooltip";
this.onscroll = null;
};
}
I added some simple CSS to the div, so that a vertical scroll bar would appear. Content stretches down quite a bit and there's a lot to scroll.
#oDiv {
border: 1px solid black;
float: left;
height: 300px;
overflow: auto;
overflow-x: hidden;
padding: 0;
padding-right: 40px;
clear: left;
}
Anyways, if the user tries to scroll I want a tooltip to appear to remind the user that there's a filter option to hide some of the stuff they have to scroll, through.
In Firefox and more current browsers it worked just fine.
The problem I have, is I have to support IE6, and this approach does work in IE6 but there's a slight issue. If you "grab" the scroll bar by left clicking and holding and continue to drag when the event is fired the scroll bar is prematurely released. Forcing the user to again click on the drag bar. It's a minor issue, but I want to know why?
I only intend to fire this event once ever, only when scrolling has initiated.
If a library or framework has solved this odd behavior, could you please show their source to which they address this?
Also, I think timing libraries etc. al for determining the "point at which they stopped scrolling" is way overkill for this.

It could be because IE is pausing to render the "tooltip". Instead of using display:none on your tooltip try to use visibility:hidden and then toggle to visibility:visible.

Disable horizontal scroll with JavaScript

Does anyone know if there is a way to disable the horizontal scrollbar using JavaScript?
I don't want to use overflow-x: hidden;.

Without using the perfectly workable overflow-x CSS property, you could resize the content to not require a scroll bar, through javascript or through HTML/CSS design.
You could also do this:
window.onscroll = function () {
window.scrollTo(0,0);
}
... which will detect any scrolling and automatically return the scroll to the top/left. It bears mentioning that doing something like this is sure to frustrate your users.
You're best served by creating an environment where unwanted UI elements are not present at all (through the CSS, through design). The approach mentioned above shows unnecessary UI elements (scroll bars) and then causes them to not work in a way that the user expects (scroll the page). You've "broken a contract" with the user - how can they trust that the rest of your web site or application will do expected things when the user makes a familiar action?

A way to prevent elements from scrolling down in jQuery:
$(element).scroll(function () {
this.scrollTop = 0;
this.scrollLeft = 0;
});
Well, this does not actually prevent the scrolling, but it "scrolls back" to the top-left corner of an element, similar to Chris' solution which was created for the window instead of single elements. Remove the scrollTop or scrollLeft lines to suit your needs.

A dirty trick would be overlapping the scrollbars: http://jsfiddle.net/dJqgf/.
var overlap = $('<div id=b>');
$("#a").wrap($('<div>'));
$("#a").parent().append(overlap);
with:
#a {
width: 100px;
height: 200px;
overflow-x: scroll;
}
#b {
position: relative;
left: 0;
bottom: 20px;
width: 100%;
height: 20px;
background-color: white;
}