Learn CSS Flexbox by Building a Photo Gallery - Step 8

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Tell us what’s happening:

COURSE SAYS:
Padding and border values get added to the total width, so the element grows to accommodate these values.

HOLD up. as far as i know, when you use padding, it will squezze the content or you can say adding a space between the border. I thought css are easy, but boy i was wrong. more confusing.

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 Information:

Learn CSS Flexbox by Building a Photo Gallery - Step 8

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css is hard, i agree.
You already moved onto the next step (9) and I’ve pointed you to the MDN reference for box-sizing where it says this:

By default in the CSS box model, the width and height you assign to an element is applied only to the element’s content box. If the element has any border or padding, this is then added to the width and height to arrive at the size of the box that’s rendered on the screen.

So by default, the element’s overall size is increased when you add padding, unless you’ve specificed explicity with the box-sizing: border-box option to include the border/padding values in the explicit size.

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