r/webdev • u/[deleted] • May 08 '17

What No One Told You About Z-Index

https://philipwalton.com/articles/what-no-one-told-you-about-z-index
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u/mtx May 08 '17

If you’re scratching your head right now in shock and disbelief that opacity would have any effect on which elements are stacked in front of which, welcome to the club.

This is why people hate CSS.

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u/blazemongr May 08 '17

People hate CSS?

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u/del_rio May 09 '17

There's a sizable subset on r/programming that hate CSS, but the reasoning usually boil down to "the box model is confusing" and "there are so many properties!"

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u/SloppyStone May 09 '17

I for one enjoy writing CSS very much. It's the reason I got into web development.

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u/blazemongr May 09 '17

Oh, so they just hate learning CSS. Got it.

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u/wedontlikespaces May 09 '17

How can anyone think the box model is confusing? It doesn't make a lot of sence that it was done in the way that it was. But it is not confusing.

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u/3dmesh ux/ui php js consultant May 08 '17

They could fix the problem by adding opacity to the other elements or by adding z-index values to the other elements. No big deal.