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HTML

<script src="http://mcpants.github.io/jquery.shapeshift/core/jquery.shapeshift.min.js"></script>
<div class="container">
    <div>5</div>
    <div>6</div>
    <div>7</div>
    <div>8</div>
</div>

CSS

.container {
    border: 1px dashed #ccc;
    position: relative;
}

.container > div {
    background: #CCC;
    height: 100px;
    position: absolute;
    width: 80px;
}

.container .ss-placeholder-child {
    background: transparent;
    border: 1px dashed red;
}

JavaScript

/*!
 * jQuery Cookie Plugin v1.4.1
 * https://github.com/carhartl/jquery-cookie
 *
 * Copyright 2006, 2014 Klaus Hartl
 * Released under the MIT license
 */
(function (factory) {
	if (typeof define === 'function' && define.amd) {
		// AMD
		define(['jquery'], factory);
	} else if (typeof exports === 'object') {
		// CommonJS
		factory(require('jquery'));
	} else {
		// Browser globals
		factory(jQuery);
	}
}(function ($) {

	var pluses = /\+/g;

	function encode(s) {
		return config.raw ? s : encodeURIComponent(s);
	}

	function decode(s) {
		return config.raw ? s : decodeURIComponent(s);
	}

	function stringifyCookieValue(value) {
		return encode(config.json ? JSON.stringify(value) : String(value));
	}

	function parseCookieValue(s) {
		if (s.indexOf('"') === 0) {
			// This is a quoted cookie as according to RFC2068, unescape...
			s = s.slice(1, -1).replace(/\\"/g, '"').replace(/\\\\/g, '\\');
		}

		try {
			// Replace server-side written pluses with spaces.
			// If we can't decode the cookie, ignore it, it's unusable.
			// If we can't parse the cookie, ignore it, it's unusable.
			s = decodeURIComponent(s.replace(pluses, ' '));
			return config.json ? JSON.parse(s) : s;
		} catch(e) {}
	}

	function read(s, converter) {
		var value = config.raw ? s : parseCookieValue(s);
		return $.isFunction(converter) ? converter(value) : value;
	}

	var config = $.cookie = function (key, value, options) {

		// Write

		if (arguments.length > 1 && !$.isFunction(value)) {
			options = $.extend({}, config.defaults, options);

			if (typeof options.expires === 'number') {
				var days = options.expires, t = options.expires = new Date();
				t.setTime(+t + days * 864e+5);
			}

			return (document.cookie = [
				encode(key), '=', stringifyCookieValue(value),
				options.expires ? '; expires=' + options.expires.toUTCString() : '', // use expires attribute, max-age is not supported by IE
				options.path    ? '; path=' + options.path : '',
				options.domain  ? '; domain=' +...