Absolute positioning in Editor

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Hi,

I have just started to learn UI Toolkit and after reading almost all docs I have a little question about absolute positioning with UI Toolkit.

What I am trying to build is a little node editor. As you can imagine to position the nodes on the canvas I need absolute positioning instead of the default Flex Layout that is the standard with UI Toolkit.

On the other hand the doc states:

UI Builder also exposes Position style properties. To use the Position style properties you must set the Position > Position type to Absolute. This Absolute mode makes an element invisible to the default Flexbox-based layout engine. It’s as if it no longer takes any space. Absolute position elements will appear on top of any siblings that are still using Relative position.

Does this mean that for every node I create I must set its positoning to absolute? Isn’t there any way to make absolute positioning default?

Thanks in advance!

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I’d say yes. I’d recommend creating a base custom element for your nodes. If you do that, you can set absolute position only once in the element’s constructor.

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