As of January, with Firefox 147’s release, Anchor Positioning is supported across all major browsers .

I’m happy about that, of course. I think Anchor Positioning is really powerful and a layout mechanism we probably should have had a long time ago. My enthusiasm was tempered when I found out how finicky it can, simply not finding anchors for reasons you have to be somewhat of a web expert to be able to diagnose and fix.

I wrote all this up in The Big Gotcha of Anchor Positioning , which is something of a rant as if I can be a squeaky wheel that helps makes this better in the future, I’m happy to do it.…