SI26 Position
This page develop a sensible, linguistic, technical, visual and cultural approach of the CSS position property.
prompt:
- we write an intuitive understanding of what Position is about
- we write a list of what the word "Position" mean to us in context outside of CSS
- for each of those value keywords, we write an intuitive understanding of what they do, using analogies and metaphors
- for each of those value keywords, we try to understand when it was implemented and why where the reason to add it to the standard, with references
- for each of those value keywords we'll try to find online examples, through the inspector and screenshots
- for each of those value keywords we'll ask: how much is it about web-materiality, how much is it borrowing from other design practice
- static
- relative
- absolute
- sticky
- fixed
example of positions in culture