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CSS Positions: Keeping an Absolute Element Inside its Parent

In CSS, when you style an element with , you'll often notice that said element will teleport outside of its parent and float happily on its own, sometimes even totally offscreen. This might've been enough to scare you off absolute positioning altogether, but I'm here to coax you back. What the heck is going on? When researching CSS absolute positioning, you may see a lot of forum posts saying its...