Absolute Positioning elements

[TechnoBear]

@asasass

no one has ever brought it up to me before.

Seriously???

Not seeing the square links with javascript disabled

Remember this? https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/absolute-positioning-on-play-buttons/283841/28?u=technobear It makes sense to group all the rules affecting a particular element or class together, where possible. That makes it easier to read the CSS and see what’s going on, and less likely that you’ll accidentally override one rule with a later one, which can easily happen if they’re dotted about at random. Combining rules to keep the CSS short is generally a good idea, but there are tim…

Getting initial to work at the top of the code?

You can’t look at CSS rules in isolation. You need to look at the bigger picture. You only want the “Links” text to display when the player is inactive, don’t you? You don’t want it there all the time. So adding display: none; prevents it showing. But when it has the class of inactive, you do want the text to show, so you have to override the display: none; and set it back to its default state of display: block;

https://www.sitepoint.com/community/t/absolute-positioning-on-play-buttons/283841/28?u=technobear

All those are from the last two weeks, and I know I’ve been over this before then, too.