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I think we've all been there and started throwing out crazy z-index values at one point or another, usually out of frustration. The only real solution is to keep this stuff under control from the start and always use exactly the z-index you need.

Ahaha totally. I can just imagine the hilarious scene where a poor dev just breaks after a solid 45 minutues of trying to get that god-forsaken div to overlap another and gets to his feet, punchs down the 9 key for a whole 3 seconds screaming a 3-syllable combination of rage-soaked curses ("cock-sucking cunt" comes to mind), finally collapsing back into his seat on the last; too pissed to even bother hitting Ctrl+R to see if it had worked, typing 'git add . && git commit -m "fuck everything." ' before going home.

First step is for people to understand stacking contexts (https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Guide/CSS/Under...). Blew my mind after years of web development to learn that I had really had no idea how z-index worked.

I always used to use BASIC numbering -- 10x the actual desired value in case you need to insert something in between!

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