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Place element on top of other (Create overlay)

I'm still a bit new to HTML and CSS and need some help.
I have a div and inside that, I have an telephone input element. The input is using a library that allows the user to select a country code.
The problem is, that when I click on the country code it stays inside the parent div, which is not what I want.
As you can see on the image the desired behaivour is to have the red box outside of the blue one. I have set the parent elements position property to 'relative' (the blue box) and the country code container (the red one) to 'absolute', but it doesn't help. I've also tried changing the z-index without luck.
The red box as shown on the picture has the following styles:
.iti__country-list {
position: absolute;
z-index: 2;
list-style: none;
text-align: left;
padding: 0;
margin: 0 0 0 -1px;
box-shadow: 1px 1px 4px rgb(0 0 0 / 20%);
background-color: white;
border: 1px solid #CCC;
white-space: nowrap;
max-height: 200px;
overflow-y: scroll;
-webkit-overflow-scrolling: touch;
}
And the blue one:
.drag-container {
display: grid;
max-height: 600px;
overflow-y: auto;
padding: 10px;
position: relative;
}
I can almost get the desired output by setting position to 'fixed', but thats not good when resizing the page as it stays in its position.

I think the problem is in .drag-container class ... remove overflow:auto or change it to overflow:unset

you can try using the select2.js plugin for select, it creates a dropdown at the end of the body element regardless of the parent's location

JavaScript a Div with Indefinitely Generated Cells and a Horizontally-Locked Leftmost Column

I need to generate a spreadsheet using for loops, because the number of rows in the chart and the width of each row is indeterminate. So far, absolutely every example every search engine has thus returned in the past three weeks has not covered this. Either that, or there's some inherent difficulty in defining abstraction once one learns a specific amount of coding.
I have managed to make the leftmost column remain in place horizontally by using "position: sticky;" and "left: 0px;" properties/elements/tags/funyarinpas in its..."CSS". It'd also be really neat if "myDiv" could start out scrolled to the bottom of itself upon loading the page.
Here's my cruddy style, hashed together from weeks of training a cat to smash a brick on an old Gateway keyboard:
.myDiv {
width: 480px;
height: 200px;
overflow: auto;
white-space: nowrap;
display: inline-block;
outline: 1px dashed orange;
}
.myRowHeader {
min-width: 25%;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
position: sticky;
left: 0px;
text-align: right;
z-index: 1;
float: left;
clear: left;
background-color: black;
outline: 1px dotted green;
}
.myCell {
min-width: 20%;
display: inline-block;
vertical-align: middle;
white-space: nowrap;
float: left;
outline: 1px dotted cyan;
}
I want the dimensions and widths to stay like that. Henceforth, that "myDiv" will have to scroll vertically as well as horizontally. Oh, and eventually, "myDiv" will have to be placed into another div at some point. Here's some pseudo-JavaJavaJavacode:
/* Initializes variables. */
<set _target to "testChar">
<set $levels to ["bad", "tepid", "good", "gooder", "swell", "neato", "bestest", "more most", "exquisite", "almost impressive"]>
<set $fruit to {
apple: 3,
cherry: 3,
coconut: 3,
orange: 3,
peach: 3,
pear: 2,
}>
/* Generates the skill pyramid for the target character. */
<div class="myDiv">
<for _i to $levels.length; _i > 0; _i-->
<div class="myRowHeader">
<print $maxLevel[_i]><print _i>
</div>
<for _j to 0; _j < $fruit.length; _j++>
<if $fruit[_j] is _i>
<div class="myCell">
<print $fruit[_j]>
</div>
</if>
</for><br>
<</for>>
</div>
Another reason why this code might be wrong apart from any lack of qualifications to even type coherent sentences let alone syntax is due to fatigue. Oh, it might be necessary to specify where and how all the solutions should be applied from a practical perspective.
Thank you for your time, and have a happy holidays.

Adjusting background-position of image pieces

I'm trying to make a puzzle out of a background image with numbered pieces. The pieces will eventually be movable with javascript. Right now, I'm stuck simply trying to position the pieces of this image. The html has a div with id called puzzlearea, and I have appended children with javascript, which I know works because it displays the new div pieces and their numbers. The CSS refuses to move the pieces relative to this background, and my two test pieces are stuck in the top left corner, seemingly ignoring my background-position values. Here is the CSS:
body {
text-align: center;
font-family: cursive;
font-size: 14pt;
}
#puzzlearea {
width: 400px;
height: 400px;
margin: auto;
position: relative;
background-image: url("planck-image.png");
}
.tile {
font-size: 40pt;
color: red;
line-height: 70pt;
width: 90px;
height: 90px;
border: 5px solid black;
background-position: -200px -200px;
position: fixed;
}
Update: Screenshot.
Would you have any ideas as to why the positioning is not occurring?

You need position: absolute on .tilein order to be able to place them with the top/bottom/left/right parameters (and you need those too).
fixed position refers to the viewport, not the parent element.

Fyneworks jQuery Star Rating Plugin - half ratings

I am trying to implement a star rating system for articles and found this nice plugin. I have exchanged the default star.gif with my own stars. Everything works fine if I use a full star rating. As soon as I am trying to use the split star function, the stars are not displayed correctly anymore.
The stars itself have a width of 32px.
The half stars should be on top of the right side of the full stars.
The following if-clause seems to be responsible for calculating the position:
// Prepare division control
if(typeof control.split=='number' && control.split>0){
var stw = ($.fn.width ? star.width() : 0) || control.starWidth;
var spi = (control.count % control.split), spw = Math.floor(stw/control.split);
star
// restrict star's width and hide overflow (already in CSS)
.width(spw)
// move the star left by using a negative margin
// this is work-around to IE's stupid box model (position:relative doesn't work)
.find('a').css({ 'margin-left':'-'+ (spi*spw) +'px' })
};
it is embedded in a "for-each star" loop. I have debugged this with firebug and the calculation seems to be correct. Each second star should have a left-margin of -16px.
For some reason this is not displayed on the site though.
Does anyone know what I am doing wrong? I have to mention that I do not have much experience with JS.
Here is the css:
div.rating-cancel, div.star-rating {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
cursor: pointer;
display: block;
float: left;
height: 32px;
overflow: hidden;
text-indent: -999em;
width: 17px;
}
div.rating-cancel, div.rating-cancel a {
background: url("delete.gif") no-repeat scroll 0 -16px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
}
div.star-rating, div.star-rating a {
background: url("star.gif") no-repeat scroll 0 0 rgba(0, 0, 0, 0);
}
div.rating-cancel a, div.star-rating a {
background-position: 0 0;
border: 0 none;
display: block;
height: 100%;
width: 32px;
}
div.star-rating-on a {
background-position: 0 -32px !important;
}
div.star-rating-hover a {
background-position: 0 -64px;
}
div.star-rating-readonly a {
cursor: default !important;
}
div.star-rating {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent !important;
overflow: hidden !important;
}

I cannot really tell what went wrong here. First of all the width in this setting had to be adjusted. Then one might want to get rid of the float option and use inline-block on the display instead. That way the following components will be drawn in a new line.
div.rating-cancel, div.star-rating {
background: none repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
cursor: pointer;
display: inline-block;
height: 32px;
overflow: hidden;
text-indent: -999em;
width: 32px;
}
If I changed this value with firebug nothing happened. I replaced the css with the original file and then just added the changes I needed again and voilá, everything looks nice now.

CSS - displaying a dynamic height floated DIV - missing background image

My Goal:
Here is what I'm trying to accomplish. We have an list of categories that appear on a page. The number of categories is unknown. The description can be pretty much any size... yet we want a uniform look. So, we are using the dotdotdot plugin to put ellipses on the paragraphs. When you hover over the item, it should expand the description and show the full text.
I want that hover to float or overlay whatever is below it. Due to some of my layout items (see my NOTE below) my sccontainer element doesn't have a set height. It's dynamic based on the content... with a max-height set.
When I change that height to AUTO in the hover event (which causes the text to flow down and displays all the content), I lose the background on the sccontainer element.
Some pertinent CSS:
.sccontainer { width: 280px; zoom: 1; float: left; margin: 5px 10px; padding: 0; border: 1px solid #8697a1; -moz-border-radius: 5px; border-radius: 5px; -moz-box-shadow: 0 0 6px #777; -webkit-box-shadow: 0 0 6px #777; box-shadow: 0 0 6px #777; -ms-filter: "progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=6, Direction=90, Color='#777777')"; filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.Shadow(Strength=6, Direction=90, Color='#777777'); position: relative; background: #fff url(http://imagecss.com/images/background.jpg) repeat-x left top; }
.sccontainer .parent { position: absolute; width: 270px; }
.sccontainer .image { margin: 5px; float: left; }
.sccontainer .image img { width: 48px; }
.sccontainer .icon { margin: 0; }
.sccontainer p { margin: 8px; padding: 0; max-height: 145px; }
.sccontainer h1 { line-height: 24px; display: inline-block; vertical-align: middle; width: 200px; height: 48px; padding: 0; margin: 5px 0 0 0; overflow: hidden; }
.sccontainer h1 a { padding: 0; font-size: 24px; color: #fff; font-weight: normal; }
.sccontainer .content { position: relative; height: 210px; padding: 0 5px; font-size: 15px; line-height: 22px; width: 270px; }
.sccontainer a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
.sccontainer.hover { height: 250px; }
.sccontainer.hover .content { height: auto; }
.sccontainer.hover .content p { min-height: 135px; max-height: none; }
jsFiddle:
Here is a jsFiddle version of what I have right now. You can see this in action, if you hover over the text in the blue box. It's a bit large, so I used jsFiddle instead of putting all the bits here code tags...
http://jsfiddle.net/ztMM5/1/
And here is a mockup of what I'd like to see. Method 5a expands slightly to show the full content.... yets overlaps the red line. None of the other items move around or are affected.
NOTE: Sorry for the size of things. I've trimmed it down about as much as I can. Also, I am modifying an existing intranet website... it's 3rd party, so I have limited control of the source code - hence the table usage. :(
What I've Tried/Researched:
I believe the issue stems from the fact that my sccontainer item is floating, and doesn't have a height specified. That's why the image disappears.
I had a version that kept the background... but the sccontainer box didn't resize like we need... the text just overflowed it... rather ugly.
I don't know enough CSS to make this all work right. I'm not adverse to using jQuery to do more if needed.
I did work on a version that handled most of the hover using the :hover stuff... but it didn't work quite as well as the jQuery approach.

This answer may not solve your specific problem but it may help others with a similar scenario (working with tables makes difficult to render a clean layout in most cases.)
I ran into this issue before and this is how I solved it. It basically relies in an html nested div structure to achieve the expandability of the content without affecting the floating layout of the near elements :
<div id="wrapper" class="cf"><!--wrapper with border and CLEARED-->
<div class="sccontainer"><!--position relative-->
<div class="inner"><!--position absolute-->
<div class="content"><!--position relative-->
<!-- my content here -->
</div>
</div>
</div>
<!-- more containers etc-->
</div><!--END wrapper-->
First, we are going to apply the infamous clear-fix hack to the #wrapper container (use your preferred method):
.cf:after {
visibility:hidden;
display:block;
content:"";
clear:both;
height:0
}
* html .cf {
zoom:1
}
/* IE6 */
*:first-child+html .cf {
zoom:1
}
Then the style for the .sccontainer container :
.sccontainer {
width: 280px; /* or whatever - could be % for responsiveness */
padding-bottom:200px; /* any value to give height without using height ;) */
position: relative;
float: left;
margin: 5px 10px; /* or whatever */
overflow: hidden; /* this is important to keep all same height and big content out of sight */
z-index: 1; /* this is important too, see later */
background: white url("imagebackground.jpg") 0 0 repeat-x; /* need to explain? */
}
Then the .inner container, which actually will help to keep the layout in order if we hover the elements
.inner {
position: absolute; /* please don't move */
width: 100%; /* to fill the whole parent container */
height: 100%; /* same */
}
And the content :
.content {
position: relative;
background: white url("imagebackground.jpg") 0 0 repeat-x; /* not redundant though */
width: 100%; /* helps to fill the gaps with small content */
height: 100%; /* same, specially if using image backgrounds */
/* other styles, etc */
}
NOTE: we should apply same border-radius properties to the three containers and box-shadow to .sccontainer and .content for consistency
Now, what happens when we hover ?
.sccontainer:hover {
overflow: visible; /* show the full content */
z-index: 999; /* place me on top of the others if needed (which lower z-index, remember?) */
}
.sccontainer:hover .content {
height: auto; /* as it really is, including background image */
}
NOTES : this effect will happen regardless if the content's height is smaller than the parent container's height. You may not like the effect mostly if you are using borders and shadows (could be shown as smaller box inside the parent container) so we could add an extra class to .sccontainer like
<div class="sccontainer withhover">
and apply the hover effects only if that class exist like
.sccontainer.withhover:hover {
overflow: visible;
z-index: 999;
}
... and use a bit of jQuery to remove that class for shorter content, so it won't be affected :
jQuery(document).ready(function ($) {
$(".sccontainer").hover(function () {
var $contentHeight = $(this).find(".content").height();
if ($(this).innerHeight() > $contentHeight) {
$(this).removeClass("withhover");
}
});
});
See JSFIDDLE