Big ol’ same to Michelle Barker here:
Here’s something I find myself needing to do again and again in CSS: completely covering one element with another. It’s the same CSS every time: the first element (the one that needs to be covered) has position: relative applied to it. The second has position: absolute and is positioned so that all four sides align to the edges of the first element.
.original-element { position: relative; }
.covering-element { position: absolute; top: … Read article “A Utility Class for Covering Elements”
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