The problem: you click a jump link like <a href="#header-3">Jump</a> which links to something like <h3 id="header-3">Header</h3>. That's totally fine, until you have a position: fixed; header at the top of the page obscuring the header you're trying to link to!

Fixed headers have a nasty habit of hiding the element you're trying to link to.

There used to be all kinds of wild hacks to get around this problem. In fact, in the design of CSS-Tricks as I write, I was like, "Screw it, I'll just have a big generous padding-top on my in-article headers because I don't mind that look anyway."

But there is actually a really straightforward way of handling this in CSS now.

h3 {
  scroll-margin-top: 5rem; /* whatever is a nice number that gets you past the header */
}

We have an Almanac article on it, which includes browser support, which is essentially everywhere. It's often talked about in conjunction with scroll snapping, but I find this use case even more practical.

Here's a simple demo:

In a related vein, that weird (but cool) "text fragments" link that Chrome shipped takes you to the middle of the page instead, which I think is nice.

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GDPR, DSGVO, etc.

• Der gefährliche Quatsch der DSGVO, Marcel Mellor
  Es hätte klappen können: Privacy by Design, Klarheit über unsere erfassten Daten, Datenschutz als Normalzustand. Die Datenschutzgrundverordnung (DSGVO) hat stattdessen den Ruf des Datenschutzes geschwächt und das Internet weiter zentralisiert. Schöner Mist. Und jetzt?
• Wie eine bessere DSGVO ausgesehen hätte, neunetz.com
  Denn eine Flut an Pop-Ups zum Abnicken helfen am Ende weder den Nutzern noch den kleinen und mittleren Anbietern im Netz, sie helfen vor allem den Großen.
• The first cut is the deepest – Nele Heise
  Letzte Woche ist was nicht so Schönes passiert. Es hat mit *drum roll* Datenschutz und DSGVO zu tun. Und mit meinem Kind. Oder vielmehr: allen Kindern. Und Jugendlichen. In diesem Internet.
• A critical reflection on #GDPR, tante.cc
  This text will just look at the GDPR as it is, as regulation.
• How GDPR Will Change The Way You Develop — Smashing Magazine
  GDPR requires you to be more thoughtful about the sites and services you build, more transparent about the ways you collect and use data, more considerate of your users, and more thorough in your development and documentation processes.