Howdy, Is Absolute position supposed to work differently between 3D and overlay? Currently, Abs position in 3D moves the element relative to the parent rect, which is great. In Overlay mode however, it always moves relative to the screen rect. I.E in 3D, if parent is 100px, 50% from top is 50px fro…

Yes I’m also facing the problem where absolute position on overlay positions the element in relative to the viewport screen rather than the parent frame. This makes it pretty much unusable if you want your UI to work on multiple phone devices. @GeorgeButler could you please help us? Is there someth…

Would you just recommend injecting HTML and CSS?

[image] Is HTML, CSS and Studio Recommended? 🧑💻 Technical Support Hi Leonard! It’s not recommended, but since 8th Wall experiences are JavaScript applications running in a browser, it’s certainly possible. You can integrate HTML and CSS within your Studio TS/JS files by …

I dont think you’re missing anything, it seems like Studio is in need of an offset or something for flex layouts or to have the absolute position be relative to the parent container. I’ll have engineering look into this to see if we’re missing anything.

Thank you for looking into this!

Absolute position works differently in 3D vs Overlay

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Absolute position works differently in 3D vs Overlay

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