A couple of great anchor positioning use cases @KevinPowell
A couple of great anchor positioning use cases  @KevinPowell
Uploaded January 2026 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Anchor positioning is great at a lot more than just tooltips!

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βœ… OddBird article I mentioned on fixes for when anchor positioning doesn't work: Here’s Why Your Anchor Positioning Isn’t Working: oddbird.net/2025/01/29/anchor-position-validity
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⌚ Timestamps
00:00 - Introduction
00:45 - Tethering to another element
06:45 - anchor-scope
10:24 - Tethering to more than one element

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