Mastering the Click: How to Handle Overlays with pointer-events Ever built a beautiful card with a decorative SVG overlay or a complex notification badge, only to realize your users can't actually click the "Buy Now" button? It is a classic frontend nightmare. You have spent hours perfecting the layout, but a transparent layer is sitting on top, acting like an invisible wall and hogging all the mouse interactions. You want the element to be visible, but you want the mouse to act like it is not even there. How we suffered before (The Ghostly Clicks) Back in the day, we had to resort to some pretty sketchy workarounds to deal with overlapping elements. If an overlay was blocking a button, we often had to manually recalculate z-index values, which usually led to a "z-index war" where elements were competing for the highest integer possible (99999, anyone?).…