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CSS relative absolute positioning
Jason Scragz over 1 year ago
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A couple weeks ago, while doing some unrelated research, I came across a technique that I had somehow never heard of for absolute positioning in CSS. I want to post it here in case anyone else has missed out on this one.
There have been quite a few times where I wanted a div to be positioned absolutely and to have it’s top/left/etc. to be specified from its staticly-positioned parent, and not from the viewport. It turns out that all you need to do is give the parent position: relative and you can do exactly that.
Here’s the original article I read that goes in way more depth.
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over 1 year ago beingzoe said ...
I swear we’ve been using this technique for a while. Or at least I used it recently (the past year) on some projects(s).
Nice to see it discussed in some length though. I haven’t had a chance to read the whole article, but I’m sure it will help me and a bunch of other people.
Though it looks like I should write a computers 201 about HTML and CSS to help our non-techy types understand what this stuff is about.