Sara Soueidan • 6/27/2016

Mimic Relative Positioning Inside an SVG with Nested SVGs

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This technical article details the challenge of positioning elements inside an SVG, which defaults to absolute positioning relative to the viewport. It contrasts SVG with HTML's CSS box model and explains how nested SVGs can be used to create a relative positioning context, mimicking behavior familiar to web developers.

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