Dropdown list moving position in layout group (Edit: this is beginner level)

the title says most of it. inside a canvas, i have made an empty gameobject (with rect transform, canvas render etc.) with a scroll rect. As a child of that gameobject, i have made the same thing except with a vertical layout group instead. under a child of that i have multiple dropdowns with texts (both under 1 parent gameobject), and everything function fines here. though, once i scroll to the bottom, or just find a dropdown that is nearing the bottom of the scroll area, when i click on it to make the list appear, the list randomly moves up ontop of the label and arrow place to make it still visible. i dont want it to do this, i want it to stay under so that if the user scrolls down, it is under. i have unity 2022.3.20f1.