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Avoid this mistake when anchor positioning a popover!

Are you positioning a popover with CSS anchor positioning and position-area? Make sure to override the default margins on the popover.

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In my CodePen example, I use margin: unset, but you can also use margin: initial or give it an actual value. Otherwise, it would use margin: auto which is great for centering the popover, but that’s not what you want to do here.

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