Possible to change visual order or z-index?

[mayank99]

I bumped into visbug again today and really enjoyed playing around with "Position" tool in particular. It's so cool that we can drag things around in the browser! 😄

The problem is that when multiple elements on the page are positioned and overlap each other, then they follow the DOM order, making it hard to layer them correctly. ☹️

Design tools all have a way of changing the visual order ("Bring forward" / "Bring to top") so it would be nice if Visbug could have something similar. Not sure what the UI would look like, since visbug doesn't make use of a custom right-click menu. Maybe could be a separate tool with its own keyboard navigation?

One potential issue is when stacking contexts are involved, which might require recursively finding the parent node and applying z-index on that until it "works". But I think a user should be able to do that manually if the keyboard shortcut feels ergonomic enough.

Also, maybe some of the work already done for the /zindex inspector tool might come in handy?

[argyleink]

def know the problem space, the visbug demo site can repro it really easily.

Design tools all have a way of changing the visual order ("Bring forward" / "Bring to top") so it would be nice if Visbug could have something similar.

we could totally add a few hotkeys (just like the ones in design tools) to bump z-index up/down/max/negative:

• add a combo like ${metaKey}+shift+] here to bump to the top
• another combo like ${metaKey}+] bumps z-index up by 1

should be a pretty easy to add! just writing and reading an inline style with some increment/decrement logic. alt+del clears any inline styles too, so if you want to restore things a user can use that.

this would be a cool addition. the question is then, which design tool shortcut do we adopt? is there a "most common" one?