Absolute position is not working

Elements with absolute positioning are positioned from their offsetParent, the nearest ancestor that is also positioned. In your code, none of the ancestors are “positioned” elements, so the div is offset from body element, which is the offsetParent. The solution is to apply position:relative to the parent div, which forces it to become a positioned … Read more

If you specify `bottom: 0` for position: sticky, why is it doing something different from the specs?

According to the MDN, fixed position elements are treated as relative position elements until the specified threshold is exceeded It’s all a matter of language here because the above sentence doesn’t mean the element will necesseraly start position:relative then become fixed. It says until the specified threshold is exceeded. So what if initially we have … Read more

Absolute Positioning Graphic JPanel Inside JFrame Blocked by Blank Sections

I was really intrigued by this idea, so I made another example, using a custom layout manager. public class MyPuzzelBoard extends JPanel { public static final int GRID_X = 4; public static final int GRID_Y = 4; private BufferedImage image; public MyPuzzelBoard(BufferedImage image) { setLayout(new VirtualLayoutManager()); setImage(image); addMouseListener(new MouseAdapter() { @Override public void mouseClicked(MouseEvent e) … Read more