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title: "💭 Wes Bos on X: \"Are you using position: absolute; to overlap el..."
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  - css
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This is a pretty incredible use of css grid to overlay items overtop of each other without needing to resort to `position: absolute` and the side effects that it brings.


``` css
.wrap {
  display: grid;
  & > * {
    grid-row: 1;
    grid-column: 1;
  }
}
```

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