Chrome 144 features a small change to overscroll-behavior: it now also works on non-scrollable scroll containers. While this change might seem trivial, it fixes an issue developers have been dealing with for ages: prevent a page from scrolling while a (modal) <dialog> is open.

A while ago I joined Dan Neciu – whom I met at Frontmania in 2023 – on his “Señors @ Scale” podcast. We talked about all things CSS.

Starting with Chrome 144, Anchor Positioning is going to be transform-aware. From then on, anchoring will resolve against the bounding box of the transformed ancho