Fix · Pages, phones and Arabic

A menu or popup shows behind other content (z-index)

What you may see

My dropdown is hidden behind a picture
z-index 9999 does nothing

Most likely cause

z-index only works inside its own stacking group; a parent with transform, opacity or position creates a group that traps the child.

Check first (about two minutes)

Inspect the hidden element and its parents: any with transform, filter, opacity below 1, or position + z-index?

The fix prompt

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The exact error or what you see

What you did before it happened

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Prompt language

You are a senior front-end engineer who knows HTML, CSS, React, phones and Arabic right-to-left pages, and explains things to people who are not developers. I am not a developer, so explain every step in plain words and tell me exactly which button, menu or command you mean. If you are not sure about something, say so; do not guess.

THE PROBLEM
A menu or popup shows behind other content (z-index)

THE EXACT ERROR OR WHAT I SEE
[paste the exact error here]

WHAT I DID BEFORE IT HAPPENED
[write in a few words what you did before it happened]

MOST LIKELY CAUSE
z-index only works inside its own stacking group; a parent with transform, opacity or position creates a group that traps the child.

DO THESE STEPS, IN THIS ORDER
1. Find the stacking group that traps the element.
2. Fix it by moving the popup to the top level of the page (a portal) or removing the trapping property, and use a small set of named layers (menu, modal, toast).
Stop and tell me if what you see does not match a step. Do not skip ahead.

CHECK THAT IT WORKED
- The popup is above everything in English and Arabic, and the page still scrolls normally.
Tell me exactly what I should see on the screen when it works.

DO NOT CHANGE
- Do not raise z-index numbers endlessly.
- Anything I did not ask about: the design, the text, other pages, other settings or the data.
- Do not delete files, data or branches, do not reset or force-push, and do not rewrite history, unless you first show me exactly what would be lost and I say yes.
- Do not paste, print or ask me to paste a password or secret key into this chat. If one is needed, tell me which settings page of the right service to store it in.

WHEN YOU FINISH
Explain in simple words what you changed (file by file or setting by setting), why you changed it, and how I can undo it.

Paste it into Claude, ChatGPT, Gemini or Cursor, then follow what it says.

After you tried it, did it work?

Steps

Find the stacking group that traps the element.
Fix it by moving the popup to the top level of the page (a portal) or removing the trapping property, and use a small set of named layers (menu, modal, toast).

Do not do this

Do not use 99999 everywhere.
Do not raise z-index numbers endlessly.

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