Hey, mhm weird, I replied in the morning and now I see the message disappeared..
Anyway, styles are unfortunately not cloned, the element just inherits certain css properties depending on its parents, here's an example: http://mootools.net/shell/eqhfA/1/ What I want to do is to be able to move the element out of its container and preserve its appearance (that works, only there are a few problems I mentioned), that makes the element escape things such as wrappers with overflow:hidden and it is draggable around the whole page no matter the css/html structure Your solution for float doesn't seem to work in IE8 either unfortunately (there's a js error), I'll try to fiddle more with that later on though Cheers
