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Paulie_D
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Your widths aren’t logical since they don’t account for the margins.

width:33% means 33% of ALL the parent width…not 33% of the remaining width.

Accordingly, you have to account for the margins in your width calculations.

Perhaps width: calc(33.33% - 2em);

https://codepen.io/Paulie-D/pen/jwjBbj