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I've done similar when designing/troubleshooting CSS - obnoxious colours, temporary heavy borders (potentially also obnoxious colours). Makes it much easier to see where your objects are specifically, z-index, unintentional overlaps and so on.
Finally someone like me, thought I'm the only one doing this with css
dw, i do it too! it seems fairly logical; akin to using silly placeholder strings in programming.