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Z’s not dead baby, Z’s not dead

My small contribution to 24ways, Z’s not dead baby, Z’s not dead blinks sleepily into the daylight today. The use of positioning together with z-index has been a little out of favour recently.

My small contribution to 24ways, Z’s not dead baby, Z’s not dead blinks sleepily into the daylight today.

The use of positioning together with z-index has been a little out of favour recently. But in combination with alpha transparency for PNG images the stacking of elements with z-index is going to be big and used to create designs which ’break out of the box’.

Comment over at 24ways if you please. Ho, ho, ho!

November 1, 2026 • Andy Clarke • 24ways
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