How Does This Badge Work? Understanding CSS Class Order and the relative-absolute Pattern
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I copied the classes for a notification badge and it worked perfectly, but I had no idea what was happening! 🤔 The classes were all jumbled: absolute -top-2 -right-2 bg-red-500 text-white... My mentor reorganized them in logical order, and suddenly everything clicked. Then I made a brilliant connection: relative + absolute is like max-w + mx-auto—they're paired concepts that work together! This conversation taught me to see the patterns behind CSS.