Spent 6 hours chasing a CSS grid bug that was just one missing closing bracket

I was trying to make a responsive card layout with CSS Grid and kept getting this weird overlap on the third row, but after re-reading the whole stylesheet three times I found the missing bracket in the gap property. Has anyone else wasted half a day on a single character that broke everything?

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mitchell.shane11d ago

Oh man, I feel this so deep. I once spent a whole evening on a PHP script that just kept giving me a blank page - turned out I was missing a single semicolon on a variable assignment. It's wild how one tiny thing can just wreck hours of work!

joseph_lewis923d agoMost Upvoted

And @emma_young you're spot on, I pulled my hair out for two days over a stray curly brace once.

emma_young11d ago

Haha yeah or missing a closing bracket and spending an hour questioning your life choices.