# Z-index not populating to html
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**Created:** [May 25, 2024, 8:39pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/z-index-not-populating-to-html/90915 "2024-05-25T20:39:30Z")\
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**Author:**  [@PFollansbee](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/PFollansbee)\
**Post date:** [May 26, 2024, 8:45pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/z-index-not-populating-to-html/90915/8 "2024-05-26T20:45:02Z")
Hmmm, looking at my previous post for this project is jogging my memory. This is supposed to display the results of a recursive CTE which has indeterminate depth. Anywho, that led me down the road of using a viewcanvas or a flex repeater. Both worked well for displaying the column data with the multiple levels required. I'm adding headings and resize capability, so that's how this question came about.
I'm going to reach at some straws here. It may have been an inability to embed views in a recursive fashion or not being able to line up columns of a subview to a main view.
For reference, this is what I'm trying to accomplish:
> [@UI for Recursive CTE SQL Data](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/ui-for-recursive-cte-sql-data/83829):
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> Hi! I'm trying to work through a UI to show and interact with a recursive CTE SQL query. The depth of these relationships is determined by the end user and not controlled ahead of time. My initial go at this was to create a view and recursively embed multiples of these views with a main view to build out a tree. I quickly learned that views cannot be nested into themselves. Given that self-nesting cannot occur, I'm pursuing the following as options: Programmatically placing components in compo…
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