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Make dropdown a child of <body> instead of in line with the component #19

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duncan-thacker opened this issue Jul 29, 2019 · 0 comments
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Make dropdown a child of <body> instead of in line with the component #19

duncan-thacker opened this issue Jul 29, 2019 · 0 comments
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Current behaviour means that the dropdown element will be visually constrained by any relative parent of the component that has overflow: hidden. We can use React portals to render the component as a child of <body>, which will automatically bust out of any such constraints.

https://reactjs.org/docs/portals.html
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