Drag-and-drop to div behind absolutely positioned div

Question

I am doing drag and drop the HTML5-way (i.e. no jQuery draggable/droppable). I have a drop target (a div) that is partially obscured by another, absolutely positioned div, like so:

<div id="drop-target" style="width:100%; height:500px; background-color:blue;" />

<div id="obscuring-div" style="width:40%; height:150px; position:absolute; top:10px; left: 10px; background-color:red;" />

When I drop items on the absolutely positioned obscuring-div, is there any way to make the drop event trigger on drop-target instead of obscuring-div?

Answer 1

The comments from Pete led me to a javascript solution for forwarding click events through layers, and I could do something similar for drop events. For future reference, here's the code:

var element = $('#drop-target');
// This element should be droppable
element.on('dragover', function (event) {
    event.preventDefault();
});
// This element should be droppable
element.on('dragenter', function (event) {
    event.preventDefault();
});

element.on('drop', function (event) {
    // Find position of drop event
    var xPos = event.originalEvent.clientX,
        yPos = event.originalEvent.clientY;

    // Temporarily hide this element
    element.hide();

    // Find the element that is the real drop target
    var dropTargetBelow = $(document.elementFromPoint(xPos, yPos));

    // Trigger the drop event on real drop target
    dropTargetBelow.trigger(event);

    // Show this element again
    $(this).show();
});

This also works when the elements are stacked, for example if there are three obscuring divs in front of the drop target.

Answer 2

Just for the record: a similar approach using the elementsFromPoint method and the native dispatchEvent:

someHandler(event): {
  let elements = document.elementsFromPoint(event.clientX, event.clientY);
  let target = elements.find(e => e.matches('#obscuring-div'));
  target.dispatchEvent(new DragEvent('drop', {
    // anything you need to pass; works without that in the simplest case
  }));
}