Feature Request: Append to Body

[shyamal890]

Currently the dropdown is placed besides the element and not appended to the body. There are some constrains with this as sometimes the dropdown is not visible with overflow:hidden

[dannymcgee]

@dmacfarlane Our team ran into this issue yesterday. It would be fairly straightforward to implement this by using a CDK Overlay. If you'd like help with this, I can try to find some time this weekend to submit a PR.

[dmacfarlane]

@dannymcgee I'd be interested to see a PR on how this could be done using a CDK overlay, but I'm also trying to keep dependencies on other packages to a minimum. It would be preferable if there was a simple implementation that did not depend on other packages.

[sidjai09]

Please add this feature as soon as possible
as I also need this feature

Thanks in advance

[tscislo]

+1

[sontx]

I was facing this issue some days ago, and I had to implement it by myself at https://github.com/sontx/angular-mentions, it works well with all examples except for text-editor.
There is also a published package @sontx/angular-mention, just use [mentionConfig]={container: 'body'} to achieve this behaviour. I also added a smart positioning feature for this one (I think the original version does not work well)