With anchor positioning in #CSS, why do we use a CSS property `anchor-name` to define the anchor, and not just an `id`?
I'm pretty much always going to have to write `style="anchor-name: --myanchor"` surely?
Surely an anchor has to be a unique element, so it could be targeted in the same way as you would for an HTML input label?
What have I missed? Perhaps the opportunity to style anchors? But you may as well use a class for that. 🤷
Richard Rutter /
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2024-12-18 09:15:57
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