Stop fighting with CSS positioning
Channel: Kevin Powell
Date: 2022-11-29

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When we use things like position absolute, sticky, or fixed, it can sometimes lead to issues with responsiveness, or other times things just don't work the way you'd expect them to. 

A large part of being able to use CSS positioning effectively comes down to understanding CSS containing blocks, and how positioning influences it.

⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
01:07 - What is a containing block
03:50 - When we change our containing block with position absolute
07:40 - A more realistic situation and dealing with responsiveness and position absolute
12:04 - Position sticky
15:29 - The strange things that can break position fixed

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