Making a bubble tooltip overlap its window edges - javascript

is it possible for positioned content to overlap the edge of the document window that contains it? E.g. if I have a popup inside a popup, can the latter overlap the window borders of the former?
I have noticed that very long tool-tip bubbles created using the HTML TITLE attribute do overlap, but never seen a CSS or JavaScript bubble that does that.
E.g. this is a pure CSS bubble demo:
http://trentrichardson.com/examples/csstooltips/
If I resize the window so that it is quite small and then hover on the second link, I get a long tool-tip that gets clipped against the window, not what I want.

Basically, it's not possible. The tooltip generated by the title attribute are created as operating system elements, and are outside of the browser window.
On the other hand, anything you create using Javascript will be part of the web page, and thus contrained by limits of the the browser window.
There is nothing you can do about this. Sorry.
(I note that #easwee's comment links to a question where an answer is given which does provide a solution, however it is an IE-only solution and will break in any other browser)

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Pass Pointer Events through empty area of an iframe

Whilst this question references Drift, no prior knowledge of this plugin is required as this is essentially just a CSS issue. In short, it is a chat widget that utilises an auto-inserted iframe to provide it's service (and it is an absolute pain to apply a custom position to).
Background
I have recently installed a chat plugin on my client's site (powered by Drift). After much excruciating pain trying to apply a custom position to the iframe, I finally managed to get it to position correctly (or as best as it would allow).
The reason it is so painful is simply because Drift repositions and resizes it's containing iframe based on numerous, very weird, factors, so these need to be tracked.
The Problem
As mentioned, the Drift JS automatically resizes it's containing iframe according to it's contents. However, sometimes the contents and the calculated height do not match and we are left with an iframe much larger than it needs to be, but due to it's functionality, it must have a higher z-index than anything else on the page, thus the iframe creates a large 'dead' patch where no pointer-events can pass through.
Consider the following:
Can anyone suggest a way in which I can keep the pointer events of the elements within the Drift iframe (red rectangle), but also allow pointer events to pass through in the areas of the iframe that there is no content (yellow area)?
The Problem (Updated)
Please note the red rectangle in the image represents the iframe, not a containing div. i.e. Ignore my annotation
What I have Tried
I have played around with various values for pointer-events but have had no luck. I thought that something along the lines of pointer-events: visiblefill; would work but unfortunately this is only compatible with SVGs...
My last resort solution is to override the calculated height of the Drift iframe but this is extremely dirty and I cannot be sure that my calculated height will be correct, thus the widget may end up looking terrible.

jQuery Hover Over Image Content Only and Not Alpha

Perhaps the title isn't great, but I had a little trouble with the wording...
Basically, is it possible to have jQuery's hover only fire over the actual content of a png with an alpha channel.
So in the image below;
http://i.imgur.com/3kO7v.png
Only fire on the rectangle and not the alpha channel which make up the rest of the document bounds...
I've tried the obvious $('obj').hover(function(){stuff}) but this fires on the alpha channel too...
The final implementation of this will be for more complex shapes than just a rotated square, so css3 tricks are out for the primary basis, but could be used with a back-up/shim, plus I need to support IE7 and ipad,iphone,ipod....
If there is a CSS2 solution then that would be suitable too. Also any real guidance on this issue is more than welcome.
My backup for this will be to have an empty div, display block and position it over the shape and then use that. This will obviously not be ideal for the less square objects.
Any hits or tips are more than welcome.
Thank you
Yes it is possible depending on the stacking context of your elements. Keep in mind that when you do a focus over any particular element on a page, that you are actually focusing all other elements within the same stacking context.
So what you could do is either stop the event from bubbling up the stack (if the element you want to "hover" is lower in the stack that the elements you want to prevent hover effects on), or specifically put in prevent default for onhover events for all elements in the stacking context except for the one you want to actually get a hover effect.

Why isn't z-index working as I'd expect it to here?

A requirement for a current project of mine involves "highlighting" an HTML element in the context of a page. That is, I need to provide some sort of visual effect that decreases the brightness of the surrounding page while leaving the element at full brightness.
To achieve this, I'm trying the following approach:
Determining the highest z-index value of any element on the page (using JavaScript).
Creating an element to function as a "backdrop" on top of the page. This is just a <div> with a translucent gray background image, sized to 100% of the width and height of the <body> element, with position: fixed. I set its z-index to 1 greater than the highest z-index I've found on the page, with the intent that it will overlay every other element on the page.
Change the z-index of the "highlighted" element to 1 greater than the backdrop. The intent is to allow it to sit on top of the backdrop, which in turn sits on top of the rest of the page.
I got it working on a quick test page:
http://troy.onespot.com/static/stack_overflow/z_index_test.html
but when I tried to set it up on a few actual Web pages, it didn't work in all cases. For example:
http://troy.onespot.com/static/stack_overflow/z_index.html
Here, I've inserted two "dummy" elements on a copy of a Jacksonville.com article page, both with a class of test (if you're looking at the page source, they're at lines 169 & 859).
I also added some JavaScript (using jQuery) at the very end of the page that functions as I've described above.
The first <div class="test"> does function as I'd expect it to. However, the second one does not - it seems to still be stuck beneath the "backdrop" element, despite having a higher z-index.
I think this may have something to do with stacking contexts, but after reading through the relevant W3C docs (http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/visuren.html#z-index & http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/zindex.html), I still can't fathom why this is happening. I'd appreciate anyone more familiar with z-index and stacking order than I to take a look at my examples and let me know if anything looks suspicious.
Please note that I've only tested these examples in Firefox v3.6.
Thanks very much for any help!
The problem is that the second test div is inside a bunch of other HTML elements, one of which must be creating a new stacking context (it may be the #wl-wrapper-tier-1 div). Basically, a new stacking context is created whenever an element is positioned and has a z-index other than auto, see this MDC article for more info on stacking contexts.
Ultimately this means you can't achieve your desired effect reliably with this method. I think you're probably better off composing 4 divs to surround the target element.
If the element that you're highlighting is inside a different element (stacking context) with a z-index lower than the backdrop, it will not appear higher than the backdrop, since the element's z-index only controls stacking order within that parent.
The only good solution is to clone the highlighted element and add the clone to the <body> tag.
Beware of inherited CSS styles, which would be lost.

IE showing hidden div under certain circumstances

After googling around and finding a lot of ie bugs I still did not find a description of the problem I have.
The initial situation is a standard one. We have a tooltip which is actually a hidden div that will be displayed on mouseover at a given location. The div is hidden with display:none and contains a table with the content. We tried different libraries for showing the div (scriptaculous and jQuery Cluetip) but the effect is the same.
The problem:
Everything is fine as long as the contents fits the width of my window. But when I resize it until the horizontal scrollbar is activated the content of the hidden div will be shown at the end of the page when the tooltip is activated.
This is really strange as it happens only under these premises. When more than one tooltip is involved the browser might even crash (and under Vista takes the whole system with him duh).
I know it's a bit complicated to explain but I hope that someone at least had heard of that bug and can point me into the right direction.
Setting the width css property to "auto" (defined in the W3C standard) in IE will cause the <div> element to take up the entire space allotted to it. If the <body> element does not have a width applied, then this can result in a page miles and miles wide. This often crashes the browser, depending on the operating system. The best option is to just set it to null instead.
(This is based on actual experience coding for IE6 and may not necessarily apply to IE7+).
Another thing to keep in mind is that most browsers do what's called "lazy rendering" which means that if an element is hidden on the page, it won't render it. It won't even acknowledge its existence as a potentially visible object until it is unhidden. This means having no idea how big that object is going to be until you reveal it. This can cause problems if you're trying to figure out how big something will be once you make it visible. Basically the only way around it is to unhide it, read its size, re-hide it, then proceed.
The way that I did my tool tip is to use visibility hidden and visible. Once the mouse is off, I set the x and y to 0 to move the tooltip out of the viewing space.
This only works if the position is set to absolute.
Edit: How did you position the tooltip when showing it:
I positioned the tooltip by changing the css values of "top" and "left".
box.css("left, e.pageX+1);
box.css("top", e.pageY+1);
Where 'e' is my event variable from:
mousemove(function(e){});

How to create modal dialog/pop up without title bar using javascript

Want to know How to create modal dialog/pop up without title bar using javascript which will work on both IE and FF.
Thanks.
You're going to have to make a div that sits--absolutely positioned--in the middle of the viewport (or wherever you want it) above all the other elements--using z-index. This is where your content goes. Now, I recommend a film to go behind it, but above everything else--again using z-index. Then place a handler on that film that places focus back on the "modal" div. Also, you might want to place a focus handler all the other elements (not the "modal" div), using event delegation, that places focus back on your "modal" div--just to be sure.
You also might want to look at how jQuery UI does it. You'd only need to remove the title bar from. In fact, you probably could just use that one and mess with the CSS to hide the title bar.
I do this with two divs. I lay one div over the whole screen and make it semi-transparent, then I lay my "popup" div in the center of the screen with a higher z-index. The popup div can then contain whatever content you want.

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