# Datatable Custom Cell Z-index

**URL:** <https://community.weweb.io/t/datatable-custom-cell-z-index/19800>\
**Category:** Ask us anything\
**Created:** [August 27, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/datatable-custom-cell-z-index/19800 "2025-08-27T14:14:28Z")\
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**Author:** ![esowers](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/fbc32d/32.png) [@esowers](https://community.weweb.io/u/esowers)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 2:14pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/datatable-custom-cell-z-index/19800/1 "2025-08-27T14:14:28Z")

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Hey all,

I’m setting up a user profile image hover in Datatable custom cell and can’t find a way to get the hover’s z-index high enough so that the popup can float over the cell border.

 ![image](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/uploads/weweb/original/2X/5/5475a19787d11c8a871735c251399e94c3427714.png)

Any thoughts on this? The image circle is just a dropdown field where the dropdown content was set with a high z-index. The problem is that if I set the zindex on the dropdown field as a whole or on the content of the dropdown neither seem to allow the content to appear above the datatable’s border and therefore cuts off the name.

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**Author:** ![Agustin\_Carozo](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex016/user_avatar/community.weweb.io/agustin_carozo/32/13231_2.png) [@Agustin\_Carozo](https://community.weweb.io/u/Agustin_Carozo)\
**Post date:** [August 27, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/datatable-custom-cell-z-index/19800/2 "2025-08-27T16:35:37Z")

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Hi Esowers 👋

Super interesting approach you did to achieve this.  
I think the datagrid won’t allow you to go beyond the cell borders, but I might be wrong.

Interested to see what approach the community might take 🤔

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**Author:** ![Shimon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/59ef9b/32.png) [@Shimon](https://community.weweb.io/u/Shimon)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2025, 3:14pm UTC](https://community.weweb.io/t/datatable-custom-cell-z-index/19800/3 "2025-12-11T15:14:12Z")

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Hi

Have you figured this out ?

I’m trying to add a search with results in a custom cell

Technically it should be a drop down with a search box on top instead of just static text and not drop down icon