Finally figured out why my CSS grid kept breaking after 3 weeks

Turns out I was putting commas between grid-template-areas values instead of spaces lol, a random Stack Overflow comment from 2019 tipped me off. Has anyone else spent way too long debugging a single character like that?

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felix_hayes641mo ago

Heard someone say once that CSS is basically just "guess the invisible character" and that's stuck with me ever since... definitely been there with missing semicolons myself.

alice2691mo ago

Is it just me or does every CSS bug end up being something that simple, @felix_hayes64? One missing semicolon can wreck an entire layout, it's wild. I've spent hours chasing a ghost only to find it was a typo I glanced right over.

hayden_nelson8521d ago

@felix_hayes64 nailed it, that quote is way too accurate for comfort.