How to make a child element visible if the parent is overflow:hidden?

Question

I have a child element with overflow:visible; and the parent element with overflow:hidden;. The child element has height higher than the parent element.

Why the child element is hidden if has the property overflow set to visible?

HTML:

<div id="container">
    <div id="makeThisVisible"></div>
    <div id="thisRemainsHidden"></div>
</div> 

CSS:

#container {
    width: 500px;
    height: 100px;
    border: 1px solid black;
    background: Gray;
    /*OVERFLOW*/
    overflow: hidden;
}
#makeThisVisible {
    width: 240px;
    height: 300px;
    float: left;
    border: 1px solid red;
    background: IndianRed;
    /*OVERFLOW*/
    overflow: visible;
    margin-left: 8px;
}
#thisRemainsHidden {
    width: 240px;
    height: 300px;
    float: left;
    border: 1px solid teal;
    background: DarkCyan;
}

The fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/ewNbu/

To resolve this issue i don't want to use visibility property for #container or position:absolute property for #makeThisVisible, but I want to find another better way to solve the problem.

Please help! Thank you so much.

Answer 1

You can try playing with:

position:absolute;

which breaks the child out of the scope of the parent element.

DEMO