Pavel Pomerantsev occupies himself by writing code and has only the most superficial understanding of life beyond the Web platform. You can find more software-related content from him on Medium.
The z-index property, despite all that’s written about it, is still widely misunderstood and mishandled. Stacking issues in a complex single-page web application can become a major pain. Adhering to some principles, however, we can easily avoid these issues. In this article, Pavel Pomerantsev will recap what z-index actually is and how you can stop guessing whether it might work in any specific case and start treating it just like any other convenient tool.
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