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CSS: How To Have Position:absolute Div Inside A Position:relative Div Not Be Cropped By An Overflow:hidden On A Container

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Answer : A trick that works is to position box #2 with position: absolute instead of position: relative . We usually put a position: relative on an outer box (here box #2) when we want an inner box (here box #3) with position: absolute to be positioned relative to the outer box. But remember: for box #3 to be positioned relative to box #2, box #2 just need to be positioned. With this change, we get: And here is the full code with this change: <html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" xml:lang="en" lang="en"> <head> <style type="text/css"> /* Positioning */ #box1 { overflow: hidden } #box2 { position: absolute } #box3 { position: absolute; top: 10px } /* Styling */ #box1 { background: #efe; padding: 5px; width: 125px } #box2 { background: #fee; padding: 2px; width: 100px; height: 100px } #box3 { background: #eef; pad...
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Android: Styling Overflow Menu In Action Bar

Answer : I did it this way: <style name="Theme.yourapp" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat.Light.DarkActionBar"> <item name="android:actionBarWidgetTheme">@style/Theme.yourapp.Widget</item> </style> <style name="Theme.yourapp.Widget" parent="@style/Theme.AppCompat"> <item name="android:textColor">@android:color/black</item> </style> For simplicity, the android: namespace pertains to anything built into the OS while anything without android: as the namespace would pertain to your application (and the libraries you are using). Most, if not all, support libraries for the ActionBar will try to use the native ActionBar implementation and therefor use the android: namespace attributes in your styles. When the native ActionBar is not available it would use the libraries implementation and the non- android: namespaced attributes. This is why you must specify every attribute w...
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