fix: workaround LiveRegion layout issues #1534
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It turns out, under some sufficiently complex CSS conditions, the visually hidden
<LiveRegion>
component can cause layout issues. See https://static.duvallj.pw/2024-11-19/scrollHeightBug/index.html for a minimal reproduction (Chrome and Firefox; behavior is correct in Safari), and https://blog.duvallj.pw/posts/2024-11-19-chrome-heisenbug-uncovered.html for an explanation of what's wrong about this example.TL;DR sometimes this
position: fixed;
element will overflow container divs in a strange + unexpected + buggy way. Setting explicittop
/left
properties causes the layout to be calculated correctly again.