CSS Popover + Anchor Positioning is Magical
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✅ Code from this video: https://codepen.io/kevinpowell/pen/po... (slightly different, and no polyfill being used here)
✅ Chrome for Developers blog article on anchor positioning: https://developer.chrome.com/blog/anc...
✅ MDN on Anchor Positioning: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/d...
✅ Popover Polyfill: https://github.com/oddbird/popover-po...
✅ Anchor positioning polyfill: https://github.com/oddbird/css-anchor...
✅ Browser support for popover: https://caniuse.com/mdn-api_htmleleme...
✅ Browser support for anchor positioning: https://caniuse.com/css-anchor-positi...
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⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:33 - Turning our element into a popover
02:05 - Only change the display value when the popover is opened
03:25 - A few user agent styles you’ll probably want to overwrite
04:40 - Creating an anchor, and connecting an element to it
06:20 - Using the new anchor() function to position the element where you want
08:20 - Polyfills
10:15 - Change the positioning of the element when it runs out of room with @position-try
13:50 - Semantics
14:50 - Fading the out with allow-discrete
18:20 - Fading the menu in with @starting-style
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