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What is the initial position? What thats mean? You write it several times but you don't explain it

What is the initial position? What thats mean? You write it several times but you don't explain it

2 Answers

Billy Bellchambers
Billy Bellchambers
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The value of initial for position sets an items to its default position settings.

The basically removes any position settings applied from any parent based CSS properties.

(W3 documentation on initial)[http://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_initial.asp]

Hope that helps

Thank you Billy