[css] CSS: How to have position:absolute div inside a position:relative div not be cropped by an overflow:hidden on a container

I have 3 levels of div:

• (In green below) A top level div with overflow: hidden. This is because I want some content (not shown here) inside that box to cropped if it exceeds the size of the box.
• (In red below) Inside this, I have div with position: relative. The only use for this is for the next level.
• (In blue below) Finally a div I take out of the flow with position: absolute but that I want positioned relative to the red div (not to the page).

I'd like to have the blue box be taken out of the flow and expand beyond the green box, but be positioned relative to the red box as in:

However, with the code below, I get:

And removing the position: relative on the red box, now the blue box is allowed to get out of the green box, but is not positioned anymore relative to the red box:

Is there a way to:

• Keep the overflow: hidden on the green box.
• Have the blue box expand beyond the green box and be positioned relative to red box?

The full source:

#d1 {_x000D_
  overflow: hidden;_x000D_
  background: #efe;_x000D_
  padding: 5px;_x000D_
  width: 125px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
#d2 {_x000D_
  position: relative;_x000D_
  background: #fee;_x000D_
  padding: 2px;_x000D_
  width: 100px;_x000D_
  height: 100px;_x000D_
}_x000D_
_x000D_
#d3 {_x000D_
  position: absolute;_x000D_
  top: 10px;_x000D_
  background: #eef;_x000D_
  padding: 2px;_x000D_
  width: 75px;_x000D_
  height: 150px;_x000D_
}

<br/><br/><br/>_x000D_
<div id="d1" >_x000D_
  <div id="d2" >_x000D_
    <div id="d3"></div>_x000D_
  </div>_x000D_
</div>

There's no magical solution of displaying something outside an overflow hidden container.

A similar effect can be achieved by having an absolute positioned div that matches the size of its parent by positioning it inside your current relative container (the div you don't wish to clip should be outside this div):

#1 .mask {
  width: 100%;
  height: 100%;
  position: absolute;
  z-index: 1;
  overflow: hidden;
}

Take in mind that if you only have to clip content on the x axis (which appears to be your case, as you only have set the div's width), you can use overflow-x: hidden.

I don't really see a way to do this as-is. I think you might need to remove the overflow:hidden from div#1 and add another div within div#1 (ie as a sibling to div#2) to hold your unspecified 'content' and add the overflow:hidden to that instead. I don't think that overflow can be (or should be able to be) over-ridden.

If there is other content not being shown inside the outer-div (the green box), why not have that content wrapped inside another div, let's call it "content". Have overflow hidden on this new inner-div, but keep overflow visible on the green box.

The only catch is that you will then have to mess around to make sure that the content div doesn't interfere with the positioning of the red box, but it sounds like you should be able to fix that with little headache.

<div id="1" background: #efe; padding: 5px; width: 125px">
    <div id="content" style="overflow: hidden;">
    </div>
    <div id="2" style="position: relative; background: #fee; padding: 2px; width: 100px; height: 100px">
        <div id="3" style="position: absolute; top: 10px; background: #eef; padding: 2px; width: 75px; height: 150px"/>
    </div>
</div>