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Discussion on: Tell me about the worst CSS you've ever had to deal with

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Kenny Whyte

"CSS: The !important Wars"

This would be great on a t-shirt.🤣

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Dan Silcox

The sequel will be “CSS: the z-index strikes back” 😂

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Mateus Vahl

Yup! Since I had this issue, I now follow this global variable approach:

$z-index: (
  menu: 10,
  offcanvas: 20,
  lightbox: 30
);


@mixin z-index($key) {
  z-index: map-get($z-index, $key);
}

Everything on the page that could overlap is defined above.