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I have cleared this but I just want to point out that the explanation should be simplified… Its kinda complex to understand.
something like this is easy to understand: the content-box width is firstly content width and then margin and padding are added to make total width so the the element grows to accomodate the margin and padding
Your code so far
<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
<head>
<meta charset="utf-8">
<meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0">
<title>Photo Gallery</title>
<link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css">
</head>
<body>
<header class="header">
<h1>css flexbox photo gallery</h1>
</header>
<div class="gallery">
<img src="https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/css-photo-gallery/1.jpg">
<img src="https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/css-photo-gallery/2.jpg">
<img src="https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/css-photo-gallery/3.jpg">
<img src="https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/css-photo-gallery/4.jpg">
<img src="https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/css-photo-gallery/5.jpg">
<img src="https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/css-photo-gallery/6.jpg">
<img src="https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/css-photo-gallery/7.jpg">
<img src="https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/css-photo-gallery/8.jpg">
<img src="https://cdn.freecodecamp.org/curriculum/css-photo-gallery/9.jpg">
</div>
</body>
</html>
/* file: styles.css */
/* User Editable Region */
/* User Editable Region */
.gallery {
border: 5px solid red;
width: 50%;
}
img {
width: 100%;
border: 5px solid blue;
padding: 5px;
}
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Challenge: Learn CSS Flexbox by Building a Photo Gallery - Step 8
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