According to the documentation provided by Mozilla on positioning:
When an element is positioned relatively, it remains within the normal flow of elements in the document. Conversely, an absolutely positioned element is removed from the flow and does not affect the positioning of other elements. The absolute position of the element is determined relative to its nearest ancestor that is also positioned (excluding static). If no such positioned ancestor exists, then the initial container is used as reference.
You can find more information here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/position?v=example
It seems likely that the following code snippet is instructing the styled item to occupy the entire space of its parent, possibly creating a fullscreen overlay:
position: absolute;
top: 0;
bottom: 0;
left: 0;
right: 0;
This essentially means that the item should have no spacing around any side.
The width
and height
properties serve the same purpose, ensuring that the item fills its parent completely. The transition
property adds a half-second fade-in animation effect, while the background-color
property simply sets the background color of the styled item. The opacity
property indicates that the background will be semi-transparent once the fade-in animation finishes.
However, this may not be the most appropriate question for StackOverflow as all this information is readily available in Mozilla's CSS documentation: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Reference, or through a simple search using DuckDuckGo for CSS properties.