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CSS Anchor Positioning: Building Tooltips Without JavaScript Positioning Hacks
Introduction
Positioning a tooltip sounds simple.
Put a small box next to a button. Done.
But anyone who has built one knows that it can quickly turn into:
position: absolute
calculating coordinates
listening for resize events
handling scrolling
checking whether the tooltip fits on screen
and sometimes pulling in an entire positioning library
Modern CSS is starting to change that.
CSS Anchor Positioning lets us position one element relative to another directl...
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