I just wanted to document this somewhere but whenever I work on a CakePHP project, there’s always the debug info that sits at the bottom of the page. It’s big and bulky and once I’m off the default CakePHP styles, it’s usually pretty ugly.

I’ve done various stylings but I finally took a moment to implement a really simple idea: Fixed position the table and then use hover styles to toggle the visibility. It’s still not a perfect solution but darn close and certainly good enough for my needs right now [...]