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CSS Anchor Positioning in Practice
What is Anchor Positioning? Why is it exciting? What can you use it for? How does the polyfill work? Join James Stuckey Weber and Miriam Suzanne as they talk through these questions and answer yours in our monthly live stream.
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- Sizing based on the anchor element
- Anchoring Popovers to their trigger
- Scoping an anchor
- Setting up fallback positions when your element overflows
- Fun demos of what is now possible
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