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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