Re: [csswg-drafts] [css-anchor-position] Allow a positioned el's containing block to be the anchor (#11769)

> Is this in regards to using position-area? You're correct that this would be the case in the second example, which shows what is currently possible. If you use position-area in the second example that has inset: 0, then the positioned element would be relying on overflow handling, and would be completely outside the generated containing block.

The proposal (as I understand it) would mean the same geometry for both examples (left/right/etc tracking having zero size).

> This proposal would fix that- the new containing block for the positioned element would be generated by the parent div's containing block, which very well could be larger than the parent itself.

So I think you are asking for the anchored element to escape the default containing-block, but thats a different ask from allowing the containing-block to provide geometry as a valid anchor (people have been asking for this, but its a different ask).

A potential solution might be to allow abspos to skip containing blocks where there isn't a viable anchor within scope for example.

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