CSS grandchild override overflow:hidden;? - Html

Fifi
March 12, 2023
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In the following HTML structure (parent > child > grandchild), the parent has the overflow:hidden; property

<div id="parent">
    <div id="child">        
        <div id="grandchild">
        </div>  
    </div>
</div>

Can the grandchild element override the parent’s overflow hidden?

My main concern are that

the grandchild’s position is related to the child’s position.
since the child’s position is related to the parent position, it has to move with the parent when scrolling.
the grandchild’s styles (font-size, font-family…) are inherited from the child.

The child must not be visible outside the parent, unlike the grandchild.

I already try many things. Nothing works and I start to wonder if what I want to do is possible.

In the following JSFiddle, the blue box should be half visible, but the green one should be fully visible.

https://jsfiddle.net/Imabot/qs0625Lr/13/

Tags: css html

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UPDATE The only drawback is that it does not solution does not support scrolling

In this update, we added a container to hold the children. We transform that container to the bottom of the parent, instead of using #child as the container. This snippet allows you to use your original code of transforms instead of using bottom.

body {
height: 1000px;
}

* {
    margin:0;
}

#parent {
    background: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5);   
    width: 200px;
    height: 100px;
}

.container {
  position: relative;
  transform: translateY(60px);
}

/* Must not be visible outside the parent */
#child {
    background-color: blue;
    opacity: 0.4;
    width: 60px;
    height: 40px;
}


/* Must be visible outside the parent */
#grandchild {
    position: absolute;
    background-color: green;
    opacity: 0.5;
    width: 60px;
    height: 60px;
    transform: translateX(100px);
}

<div id="parent">
  <div class="container">
    <div id="child">        
        <div id="grandchild">
        </div>  
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

Fixed code not scrolling

With your current code, it does not seem possible. But if you changed your #child‘s code from transform: translateY(60px); to bottom: -60px and your #grandchild to position: fixed, the code functions as you intended.

* {
    margin:0;
}

#parent {
    background: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5);   
    width: 200px;
    height: 100px;
  overflow: hidden;
}

/* Must not be visible outside the parent */
#child {
    position: relative;
    background-color: blue;
    opacity: 0.4;
    width: 60px;
    height: 40px;
  bottom: -60px;
}


/* Must be visible outside the parent */
#grandchild {
    position: fixed;
    background-color: green;
    opacity: 0.5;
    width: 60px;
    height: 60px;
    transform: translateX(100px);
    
}

<div id="parent">
    <div id="child">        
        <div id="grandchild">
        </div>  
    </div>
</div>

If sizes and offsets of the elements are known, can be used clip-path instead overflow: hidden.
In the example below, entered something into css variables.

* {
  margin: 0;
}

#parent {
  --child-width: 60px;
  --grandchild-translate-x: 100px;
  --bottom: -20px;
  background: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5);
  width: 200px;
  height: 100px;
  display: flex;
  align-items: flex-end;
  clip-path: polygon(
    0 0,
    100% 0,
    100% 100%,
    calc(var(--child-width) + var(--grandchild-translate-x)) 100%,
    calc(var(--child-width) + var(--grandchild-translate-x)) calc(100% - var(--bottom)),
    var(--grandchild-translate-x) calc(100% - var(--bottom)),
    var(--grandchild-translate-x) 100%,
    0 100%
   );
}

/* Must not be visible outside the parent */
#child {
  background-color: blue;
  opacity: 0.4;
  width: var(--child-width);
  height: var(--child-width);
  margin-bottom: var(--bottom);
}

/* Must be visible outside the parent */
#grandchild {
  background-color: green;
  opacity: 0.5;
  width: var(--child-width);
  height: var(--child-width);
  transform: translateX(var(--grandchild-translate-x));
}

<div id="parent">
    <div id="child">        
        <div id="grandchild">
        </div>  
    </div>
</div>

Or generate a clip-path using javascript, if each element is responsive:

clip();
$(window).on('resize', clip)

function clip(){
    const grandchild = $('#grandchild');
    const right = grandchild.position().left + grandchild.width();
    const bottom = grandchild.position().top + grandchild.height();
    const left = grandchild.position().left;
    const clipPath = `polygon(
    0 0,
    100% 0,
    100% 100%,
    ${right}px 100%,
    ${right}px ${bottom}px,
    ${left}px ${bottom}px,
    ${left}px 100%,
    0 100%
   )`;
    $('#parent').css('clip-path', clipPath);
}

#parent {
  background: rgba(255, 0, 0, 0.5);   
  width: 200px;
  height: 100px;
  display: flex;
  align-items: flex-end;
  position: relative;
}

/* Must not be visible outside the parent */
#child {
  background-color: blue;
  opacity: 0.4;
  width: 80px;
  height: 100px;
  margin-bottom: -40px;
}


/* Must be visible outside the parent */
#grandchild {
  background-color: green;
  opacity: 0.5;
  width: 60px;
  height: 80px;
  transform: translate(100px, 40px);
}

<script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/jquery/3.3.1/jquery.min.js"></script>
<div id="parent">
   <div id="child">        
      <div id="grandchild">
      </div>  
   </div>
</div>

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