[6.x] Remove global header z index #13314
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Due to the way Comboboxes use the Reka Popper component—which is teleported, and doesn't sit in the regular DOM—comboboxes were appearing below the global header, so it looked a little funky when you were using the site selector, like this:
Of the possible solutions, simply removing the
z-indexin the global header resolves this issue.I may be overlooking something, but it seems like the global header doesn't actually need a z-index. Long pages still tuck underneath it while scrolling.
The global header has had
z-[3]as far back as I can see in the repo history, so I can't see a decision behind it.This PR removes it and rearranges the z-index stack now that we have one less variable.