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How to ignore an element’s size (and why you’d want to)

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Also, a big thank you to everyone who answered my survey on using em units, and sorry if it was closed when you submitted it, I hit my limits much faster than I'd anticipated!

I'll have some more insights to share next week, but the quick results are that about half of people do use them, and half don't.

🙋‍♂️ What I’ve been up to this week

How to ignore an element’s size (and why you’d want to)

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A little while ago, Jeff Bridgforth asked what seemed like a simple question on Bluesky, which turned into a bit of an interesting adventure as an all-star lineup of CSS experts weighed in, each adding a small twist to the previous person’s solution.

I cover most of it in my video, but if you’d like a breakdown of all the solutions, including the code of each one, make sure to check out Jeff’s blog post where he documented it as well.

📝 Quiz time!

Which of these CSS creates animations based on scroll-position?

  1. animation-timeline: scroll()
  2. animation-trigger: scroll()
  3. scroll-animation: timeline()
  4. timeline: scroll()

As per usual, you'll have to head on over to YouTube to take a stab at the quiz, and once you answer, you'll see if you were right or not.

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