Learn Responsive Web Design by Building a Piano - Step 17

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Tell us what’s happening:
why does the .keys {margin 2px } makes the little line ?

Your code so far

<!-- file: index.html -->
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html lang="en">
  <head>
    <meta charset="UTF-8" />
    <title>Piano</title>
    <meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1.0" />
    <link rel="stylesheet" href="./styles.css">
  </head>
  <body>
    <div id="piano">
      <div class="keys">
        <div class="key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>
        <div class="key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>

        <div class="key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>
        <div class="key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>

        <div class="key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>
        <div class="key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>
        <div class="key black--key"></div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </body>
</html>

/* file: styles.css */
html {
  box-sizing: border-box;
}

*, *::before, *::after {
  box-sizing: inherit;
}

#piano {
  background-color: #00471b;
  width: 992px;
  height: 290px;
  margin: 80px auto;
  padding: 90px 20px 0 20px;
}

.keys {
  background-color: #040404;
  width: 949px;
  height: 180px;
  padding-left: 2px;
}

.key {
  background-color: #ffffff;
  position: relative;
  width: 41px;
  height: 175px;
  margin:2px
}

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User Agent is: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_15_7) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/106.0.0.0 Safari/537.36

Challenge: Learn Responsive Web Design by Building a Piano - Step 17

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margin is exactly what it sounds like. It essentially shifts the key 2px away from the top the bottom, the left and the right of where it used to be (revealing the background slightly because of the shift which appears like a black line)

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