Learn CSS Flexbox by Building a Photo Gallery - Step 8

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Tell us what’s happening:

I’ve looked at every forum post for this step. I’ve been stuck on step 8 for a while now and still cant figure out how to use the global selector. I’m honestly just very confused and would like some help pointing me towards the right direction.

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 */

box-sizing * {
  content-box;
}

/* User Editable Region */


.gallery {
  border: 5px solid red;
  width: 50%;
}

img {
  width: 100%;
  border: 5px solid blue;
  padding: 5px;
}

Your browser information:

User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/131.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/131.0.0.0

Challenge Information:

Learn CSS Flexbox by Building a Photo Gallery - Step 8

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Hi @slightplyz

Try setting box-sizing to content-box explicitly, with the global * selector. At this point, you will not see any changes, because you are using the default value.

The selector is *

The property goes in the declaration block (between the curly braces.)

Here is the pseudo code:

selector {
  property: value;
}

Happy coding

3

I figured it out, I was using the code

box-sizing *{
content-box;
}

I should of used * as the selector and not a property.

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