What the heck, z-index? | Josh W. Comeau

The best overview of z-index and stacking contexts that I've come across, plus it keeps getting better as Josh extends the useful tools section πŸ‘πŸ‘

Top of the tips is isolation:Β isolate, a very useful CSS function that I never remember; it effectively resets the stacking context, which means it's particularly useful for component-based UI structures.

Also a worthy shout-out to the CSS Stacking Context Inspector plugin (also available for Chrome). It's already helped me locate a rogue stacking context being created by a global opacity attribute (of all things πŸ˜‚).

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