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Feb 9 2021

Exploring the Complexities of Width and Height in CSS

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Exploring the Complexities of Width and Height in CSS
"Let’s explore the complexities of how CSS computes the width and height dimensions of elements. This is based on countless late-night hours debugging and fiddling with lots of combinations of CSS properties, reading through the specs, and trying to figure out why some things seem to behave one way or another."
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