Is There a Way to Center a Position Absolute?

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The next one for me is going tobe another c s s one. And i don't know if this is necessarily seen as a hack, but it kind of feels like a hack. I should also say, a lot of these things that i'm saying at's probably not a big deal. But there are still opportunities in use cases where you might not have access to the h t m l to structure this the correct way.

In this Hasty Treat, Scott and Wes talk about CSS + JS Hacks that they're ok with using.

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00:53 What are the things in web dev, that feel wrong or hacky when starting out, but are actually totally accepted to do?
02:09 Sponsor: Sentry
03:12 Sponsor: Freshbooks
05:32 Negative margins in CSS
07:53 Not Passing a radix to parseInt()
10:17 -50% translation 50% direction
11:27 Overwriting Arguments in a function
13:20 non-standard-element
17:26 Button must have a type
18:56 Triangles out of borders
20:40 Overflow:hidden to clear a float
20:55 Always pass noopener to links!
22:16 Inline styles