How to add 1px margin to a flex item that is flex: 0 0 25%?

Question

I am testing few different layouts with flexbox and I have the following problem.

I have a image gallery with flex items set up flex:0 0 25%; and I woul

Answer 1

You can use flex: 1 0 22% for example. This will allow your element to be defined by 22% as flex-basis (so only 4 elements per row) and they will grow to fill the remaining space left by margin (since flex-grow is set to 1)

#foto-container {
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  justify-content: space-around;
  margin: 10px;
}

.foto {
  flex: 1 0 22%;
  min-height: 50px;
  margin: 1px;
  background-color: red;
}

  
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The value of flex-basis should be bigger than (20% - margin * 2) and lower than (25% - margin * 2). The first value will allow you to have 5 elements per row, so having a bigger value will make them 4 and having a bigger value than the second one will make the number of element to be 3 per row.

#foto-container {
  display: flex;
  flex-wrap: wrap;
  justify-content: space-around;
  margin: 10px;
}

.foto {
  flex: 1 0 21%;
  min-height: 50px;
  margin: 1px;
  background-color: red;
  animation: change 4s linear infinite alternate; 
}

@keyframes change {
  0%,40% {flex: 1 0 calc(20% - 2 * 1px);background:yellow;}
  41%,59% {background:red;}
  60%,100% {flex: 1 0 calc(25% - 2 * 1px + 1px);background:green;}
}

  
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