Drew Ink The year

Safe area

The part of a phone screen not covered by a notch, a rounded corner, a status bar or a home indicator, which the page must be told to respect.

Safe area: a drawn diagram with the safe area marked in vermilion.
Safe area, drawn, Drew Ink. Drawn 2026-09-10.

Near it

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What it is made of

what it isenv(safe-area-inset-top / right / bottom / left), the space a notch, a rounded corner or a home indicator takes out of the viewport
and it needs viewport-fit=cover to report anything at allwithout it the browser insets the viewport itself and every env() reads 0
measured on our own site, and the measurement is a nilenv(safe-area-inset-*) appears ZERO times in ink.css, which is the whole of this site's CSSmeasured on ink.css, which is the whole of this site's CSS: one stylesheet, 95 rules, 2 media queries. This entry is therefore describing the thing and not our use of it, and the nil is written down rather than left as an absence somebody would have to notice