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    Web Development Fundamentals

    Debugging a Layout Bug That Wasn’t CSS

    February 11, 2026 / No Comments

    I thought it was CSS.Of course I did. When a layout breaks, CSS is the usual suspect—the rogue with its hood up, pretending it didn’t touch anything. Margins collapse, flex items misbehave, something refuses to center even though you swear it’s centered. We’ve all been there, tightening selectors and muttering !important like a forbidden incantation. This time, the UI looked wrong in a way that felt familiar. A component was shifting unexpectedly. Spacing felt off. Elements that should have been aligned were… not. The kind of visual wrongness that whispers, “Your box model is haunted.” So I did what any seasoned adventurer does at the start of a dungeon: I…

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