THANK YOU this worked for me! I removed the opacity from the container and the h1 text appeared – awesome.

Ten years later, and Toby’s comment is still saving lives (this time mine).

At the chrome devTools I wrapped it on a div with a low height and overflow hidden in all directions then clicked at the input field and tah-dah!! It goes over everything…
Set the browser window to a very low height and again clicked at the input… for my surprise it got over the browser address bar and favorites…. How is it possible? Is it possible to get close with CSS? Is that because the web browser sets the pure html elements at the window in a peculiar way?
Pictures: wrapped div, over DevTools, over Browser Elements
Thank you!

Something like this:

.mc-modal-bg {
position: relative;
z-index: 99995 !important;
}

One thing to consider is that MailChimp’s CSS might not be directly overridden if you’ve embedded the modal using a script they provided.

Thank you!

Hey Les! You may need to add position: relative; or something to that effect. z-index requires the element’s position to be explicitly declared in the ruleset.

I am trying to get the MailChimp newsletter pop up to lay on top of the logo and nav bar, but as is it gets caught behind the two, making it ineffective.
Can someone help me with code so that the newsletter pop up lays on top of the page content?

I’ve already tried this CSS:
.mc-modal-bg { z-index: 99995 !important; }
.mc-modal { z-index: 99999 !important; }

But it’s not working.

Also, all the articles’ features images are overlapping (on both desktop and mobile),
The homepage is now a total mess as we can only see a few images (because they others are hidden behind),

Thank you very much for your help!
Les vaillantes
http://www.lesvaillantes.com

You just saved me lot of trouble! Thank you so much.

Years later, this still holds true. Check your overflow before you go crazy trying to figure out z-index.

You are a star !!!!

This code is not working because your all element position is relative. you should try parents position is relative and child position is absolute. this code is absolutely work.

This is paragraph

p is parent and img is child .

Absolute lifesaver – thanks a lot!

Thx Toby, u save my time