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Are you using position: absolute; to overlap elements? It's almost always better to Use CSS Grid instead!

Wes Bos

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Wes Bos1 year ago

Second video! Your questions + tips

Bruno Stasse1 year ago

And you can make it more concise with grid-area: 1 / 1;

Wes Bos1 year ago

👌😮‍💨 even better

trash1 year ago

i’m using absolute like i’m coding in the stone ages

Wes Bos1 year ago

absolute: chad;

James Landrum1 year ago

It’s a hack but a hack that I love. And one that technically the layout engine is purposely written to support.

Wes Bos1 year ago

hah yeah, I'm not sure I'd even call it a hack - its a feature of CSS grid to have multiple items on grid rows/cols

Caleb Porzio1 year ago

My guy, this is fantastic

Wes Bos1 year ago

thanks my guy!

Alex Parra1 year ago

Cool demo! I dreamt of this back in 2017 And in 2020 posted it was possible with grid. There’s likely updates I need to make to that posts.

Wes Bos1 year ago

Awesome! I also included it in my course back then too. Just re-surfacing as I still don't see it used a ton

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