<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>Drag and drop of overlapping links: absolute position</title>
<style type="text/css">
span, strong
  {color:green;
  background-color:yellow;}
strong
  {color:red;}
div
  {height:2em;
  position:absolute;
  top:10px;
  left:10px;}
div + div
  {z-index:2;}
p
  {margin-top:3em;}
</style>
<script type="application/ecmascript">
function start(event,feedback)
  {event.dataTransfer.effectAllowed = 'copy';
  event.dataTransfer.addElement(document.querySelector(feedback));}
</script>
</head>
<body>
<div>
  <a href="data:text/plain,1" ondragstart="start(event,'strong')">   </a>
</div>
<div>
  <a href="data:text/plain,2" ondragstart="start(event,'span')">Link</a>
</div>
<p>Try to drag link above. You should see word <span>PASS</span> not <strong>FAIL</strong> in feedback overlay all the time.</p>
</body>
</html>