My CSS flexbox meltdown ended with a border trick that saved my whole layout

Vera Nelson · 2026-09-05T09:35:04.739195+00:00

I spent 6 hours last Tuesday fighting a nav bar that kept squishing my logo on mobile. Tried every flex property I could google, even watched 3 YouTube videos from 2019 that made it worse. Finally noticed that the logo had a default min-width I never touched, and adding border:1px solid red to every element showed me the real culprit in 10 minutes. That debugging border thing is stupid simple but it worked better than my paid devtools extension. Has anyone else had a layout issue that was just one tiny property like min-width or overflow doing secret damage?

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