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This blog post is SO cool, the level of effort that went into this is wild
For years, one of the most befuddling things for me in CSS was how “height: 100%” would sometimes just not work. Every time I tried to use it was a roll of the dice. 😅
Like everything else in CSS, though, it all makes perfect sense when we understand the underlying mechanism. ✨
Let’s explore. 🧵
The Height Enigma • Josh W. Comeau
One of the most perplexing and befuddling things in CSS for me, for many years, was the behaviour of percentage-based heights. Sometimes, seemingly at random, setting “height: 100%” would have no effe...
