Can this be made to work with a div using absolute positioning?

[ElixirMike]

I have a DIV that I want to overlay another DIV on the page. It's a basic paren/tchild setup...a user clicks to view more detail on an item and I Would like to show the top level DIV ...which could be expanded/collapsed .

When I use absolute positioning though, this doesn't work with my div. Is there something I could do to fix? FYI in my case, I want the div to be positioned/anchored on right size of page and the resize handle would be "w" , so they could essentially pull open the drawer to see the detail.