CSS Painting Order

Usually, when I see terms like “painting order” or “stacking context” my brain will start to shut off and my eyes will gloss over. Not that my brain doesn’t normally shut off more often than not, but that’s another topic for another time.

Martin Robinson over at Igalia touches on these concepts using an example that’s pretty easy to grok, even for me. He starts with two boxes that overlap with negative margins.

Then he introduces a third box that’s … Read article “CSS Painting Order”

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