Force “position: absolute” to be relative to the document and not the parent container

Question

I am trying to insert a div into any part of the body and make its position: absolute relative to the whole document and not a parent element which has a

Answer 1

This isn't possible with simply CSS and HTML.

Using Javascript/jQuery you could potentially get the elements jQuery.offset() to the DOM and compare it the jQuery.position() to calculate where it should appear on the page.