如何在HTML中的内联元素下生成“浮动”对象？

I have a slew of normal inline < a > links that I want to open up small "floating" objects on click. These objects would be simple html divs (with some CSS) that would load on top of the page and below the link. I don't want to use relative positioning which would push the page around and I can't think of a way to use absolute positioning to get the divs underneath the inline links. I currently envision toggling the display value of the objects from none to whatever and back. I'm open to ideas.I have a slew of normal inline < a > links that