Two incidents, same lesson. First, a dropdown’s column layout looked “stretched” right after a small content edit, and the most recent edit was the natural first suspect. Second, a new CSS color rule appeared not to be applying at all, no matter how it was written.
When It Looks Like Your Edit Broke Something (But Didn’t)
Field Note #293
⚡ Quick Fix (TL;DR)
The Culprit: The grid's own layout math showed the stretching was structural, not new — in a CSS Grid row, every column's height is set by its tallest neighbor, and a long column had always been forcing shorter ones to stretch; the edit just added a visible line that made it noticeable. Separately, the site's theme applies its own global link color without !important, a known, already-documented pattern for this stack that always wins ties regardless of how a new rule is written.
The Fix: No layout bug existed to fix in the first case once confirmed structural. In the second, adding !important to the new rule matched the site's established convention for overriding that specific theme behavior.
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