Thanks, Tom. To clarify - what do you mean by moving the element to a
different parent? The element to be dragged?

My goal is to have a potentially long list of elements -- hence the
scrollbar -- which can be dragged across to the "main" div.

On 10 Jul, 16:32, Tom Gregory <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> You just defined one way to resolve the problem--you just don't like
> the answer.  Don't have the parent be overflow:auto (or scroll).
>
> The CSS is doing exactly what the spec says it should do when
> overflow is defined that way: child elements can't extend past the
> border of the parent.  Your only other option is to move the element
> to a different parent, perhaps one higher up in the DOM tree.
>
> TAG
>
> On Jul 9, 2007, at 10:38 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
>
>
>
> > Hello,
>
> > I am trying to drag a div element (Z) out of a containing div (A) to
> > an adjacent div (B).
>
> > With overflow: auto set for A, it is not possible to drag out Z out of
> > A. It's fine when I remove overflow: auto but I really do need a
> > scrollable region for A.
>
> > I have read the past posts on this topic but I am unclear how to best
> > resolve the problem.
>
> > Is it still a problem or has this been addressed in later releases? I
> > have tried to find reference to it in the script.aculo.us and Rails
> > enhancements/documentation sites but without success.
>
> > Can anyone recommend a good solution to the problem?
>
> > Thank you.


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