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Glossary Term

position-area

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The position-area CSS property enables an anchor-positioned element to be positioned relative to the edges of its associated anchor element by placing the positioned element on one or more tiles of an implicit 3×3 grid, where the anchoring element is the center cell.

position-area provides a convenient alternative to tethering and positioning an element relative to its anchor via inset properties and the anchor() function. The grid-based concept solves the common use-case of positioning the edges of the positioned element’s containing block relative to the edges of its default anchor element.

If an element does not have a default anchor element, or is not an absolutely-positioned element, this property has no effect.

Syntax example: position-area: none;

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