Bootstrap drop down cutting off - css

Question

I am trying to add a dropdown setting menu to my comments section in a project that I've been working on.
The dropdown menu seems to cut itself off and I am not sure why is that the case.
I tried overflow:visible and z-index:999. but none of them seem to work.
This is a basic comment block that I am trying to include a dropdown in
This is the basic code that I am trying to Implement
<div class="media">
<a class="pull-left" href="/user/{{shared_scribble.scribble.user.username}}/"><img class="media-object" src="/img.png/"></a>
<div class="dropdown pull-right">
<a class="btn dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" href="#" style="font-size:10px;padding: 4px 8px;">
<b data-icon=""></b> <b class="caret"></b>
</a>
<ul class="dropdown-menu">
<li><i class="icon-pencil"></i> Edit</li>
<li><i class="icon-trash"></i> Delete</li>
<li><i class="icon-ban-circle"></i> Ban</li>
<li class="divider"></li>
<li><i class="i"></i> Make admin</li>
</ul>
</div>
<div class="media-body">
<h4 class="media-heading"><a class="username" href="/user/hi/">Test User</h4>
<p>
Main body of the comment
</p>
</div>
</div>
And this is how my dropdown menu is turning out to be
media CSS
.media,
.media-body {
overflow: hidden;
*overflow: visible;
zoom: 1;
}
.media,
.media .media {
margin-top: 15px;
}
.media:first-child {
margin-top: 0;
}
.media-object {
display: block;
}
.media-heading {
margin: 0 0 5px;
}
.media .pull-left {
margin-right: 10px;
}
.media .pull-right {
margin-left: 10px;
}
.media-list {
margin-left: 0;
list-style: none;
}

Answer 1

This is not an ideal solution as the menu will not scroll with the target element, but I'm doing this for a scrolling data table as a last resort until I can find an alternative:
(function() {
var dropdownMenu;
$(window).on('show.bs.dropdown', function(e) {
dropdownMenu = $(e.target).find('.dropdown-menu');
$('body').append(dropdownMenu.detach());
dropdownMenu.css('display', 'block');
dropdownMenu.position({
'my': 'right top',
'at': 'right bottom',
'of': $(e.relatedTarget)
})
});
$(window).on('hide.bs.dropdown', function(e) {
$(e.target).append(dropdownMenu.detach());
dropdownMenu.hide();
});
})();
This will append the menu to the body and clean it up on hide. I'm using jquery UI for positioning but you can replace it with regular jquery positioning if you don't want to add the heavy dependency. You may also want to alter $(window).on if you only want to do this to a limited selection of dropdowns.

Answer 2

Check whether media class is has overflow:hidden. If so, replace it with overflow: auto or overflow: visible.

Answer 3

Write like this:
.media,
.media-body {
overflow: visible;
}
.media:after,
.media-body:after{
content:'';
clear:both;
display:block;
}
May be that's help you.

Answer 4

I had the same problem. After adding this lines, my dropdown worked just as I expected:
#media (max-width: 767px) {
.table-responsive .dropdown-menu {
position: static !important;
}
}
#media (min-width: 768px) {
.table-responsive {
overflow: visible;
}
}
I found the solution here

Answer 5

NEW METHOD:
Just bring drop down menu out of media class and use a negative margin:
<div class="dropdown pull-right" style="margin-left:-30px">
...
</div>
<div class="media">
...
</div>

Answer 6

Get this quite often on projects I inherit; tends to be a case of one of the parent elements having
overflow:hidden
Once I remove this it seems to work as expected (as long as your design doesn't rely on this property).

Answer 7

Based on #nick answer, this is what I do in Bootstrap 3 without Jquery UI.
let dropdown_toggles = $('.my-table .dropdown-toggle');
dropdown_toggles.each(function (index, elem) {
let dropdownMenu;
let dropdown_toggle = $(elem);
dropdown_toggle.dropdown();
dropdown_toggle.parent().on('show.bs.dropdown', function(e) {
let $target = $(e.target);
let $relatedTarget = $(e.relatedTarget).parent();
dropdownMenu = $target.find('.dropdown-menu');
dropdownMenu.css({
'position': 'absolute',
'z-index': 1,
'top': ($relatedTarget.offset().top + $relatedTarget.height()) + 'px',
/*'left': $relatedTarget.offset().left + 'px',*/ //from left
'left': ($relatedTarget.offset().left - dropdownMenu.width() + $relatedTarget.width()) + 'px', //from right
});
$('body').append(dropdownMenu.detach());
dropdownMenu.css('display', 'block');
});
dropdown_toggle.parent().on('hide.bs.dropdown', function(e) {
$(e.target).append(dropdownMenu.detach());
dropdownMenu.hide();
});
});
This will allow you to set from left or right with position absolute.