oddbird / oddbird/css-anchor-positioning
[BUG] Anchoring in a scrolled element is too permissive.
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- Dominant language
- TypeScript
- Stars
- 493
- Forks
- 18
- Avg merge
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Description
Describe the bug
Polyfill allows anchoring scroll more permissively than the spec allows, for instance without position-anchor.
Contributor guide
First steps
- Read the whole issue, then the project's contributing guide.
- Comment on the issue to say you are picking it up — it saves two people doing the same work.
- Fork the repository and make your change on a branch.
- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
Start by reading the CSS Anchor Positioning specification section linked in the issue, then locate the polyfill logic and tests covering anchoring inside scrolled elements and the position-anchor requirement. Confirm the current behavior and define done as matching the specification without allowing anchoring when position-anchor is absent.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- css, typescript
- Domain
- frontend, web-dev
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100