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Solution Review: CSS Intermediate Challenge

Explore solutions to an intermediate CSS challenge to create a responsive navbar. Learn to apply border-box sizing, float list items, and use media queries for different screen widths. Understand practical styling techniques including backgrounds, padding, and hover effects for better front-end interview readiness.

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Solution review: Responsive navbar

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Explanation

* {
  box-sizing: border-box;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
}

All the elements must have a border-box around them so that the padding and border are included in an element’s total width and height. The default margin and padding of all the elements are set to 0 because we want to add our custom values.

#navbar {
  background: #4c6ca4;
  overflow: hidden;
  padding: 0 2rem;
}

The background color is set to ...