Unable to position uihtml component with 'normalized' 'Units

Good evening everyone,
I was having some trouble trying to position a uihtlm component from a figure option from its property 'Position', however I find myself a little bit stuck as all the documentation I was able to find regarding positioning of uihtml refers to the units in 'Pixels' instead of 'normalized'.
Can someone confirm me if this is the case and uithtml positioning can't be normalized? I'm normalizing everything in my GUI, as it is possible that several monitors with different resolutions end up using my app.
Thanks in advance ! :)

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uihtml doc does, indeed confirm that the 'Position' property is in units of pixels and provides no alternatives.
Thanks for the feedback! That was my main worry.
Guess I'll have to use the additional ui elements and panels position in order to roughly refer. A possible workaround I'll think may be valid is to convert the figure units to pixels, apply the modification to my uihtml and then convert the figure units again back to normalized.
That's probably the best available approach. There is a CreateFcn callback that could be triggered.
I found another post from some time ago that complained that the new uibutton unlike former GUIDE button also is only in pixels. A (imo, rather rude) Mathworks reply was basically "live with it!" with a link to the uifigure doc page with the comment to use the 'SizeChangedFcn' callback and recalculate. No examples, no nothing else...

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