One box is one pixel wider but has same class - css

I have four boxes in a row and they all have the same class. They all should be the same width but one is 1 pixel wider than the rest and it's throwing the row out. As far as I can see, the content is not pushing it, and there is nothing in the box to make it 1 pixel wider. It's the second last box to the right with the contact form in it on this site: http://www.guitarworldcityarcade.com.au/
If it's not content, how can I tell what's making this particular div 1 pixel wider than the rest?
I had compensated for the border in the widths of each box: layout is 1120px wide. 1120/4 = 280. Each box has a padding of 5px, so thats 5 on the left and right. 280-10=270. Then the border, which is 1px on each side, so thats 270-2 = 268. I have set my class for the boxes to be 268px wide and yet one is one pixel wider. I don't really want to sacrifice the border (yet).

You are using border: 1px solid #111111; on line 247 of global.css.
So if you are aware of CSS Box Model
The border is counted outside of the element and not inside hence it offsets your element by 2px and not 1px because it takes 1px on the left, 1px on the right as well as top and bottom too.
So two solutions here, either you can use border: 0; or you need to use box-sizing: border-box; on that element, which will count the border inside instead of outside.

That extra space is coming because of border. So you need to set it to zero.
Declare border: none; for the last box and it will work.

Add this code in your class
border: none;
outline: none;
width:0;

Remove the css border property to that div
border:0px;

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As you in your original post the margin of a box is not included in it's content size. Without changing your margin to padding this could only be done with pseudo elements.
http://jsfiddle.net/Fcwkw/1/
Since you mentioned it's a class you can simply get a div's margin with some Javascript and set the pseudo padding to the margin.
That's not how border's work, and your image is a perfect example of that. You could create a border with a second element or with the use of :after for example...
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See the fiddle output:
http://jsfiddle.net/sdSdW/embedded/result/
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I do not want to make the border fixed width (if not really necessary)
See the fiddle source:
http://jsfiddle.net/sdSdW/
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I'm using jQuery Mobile and re-skinning it majorly. Part of this is putting a solid thick line at the bottom of the nav items. So I've overridden the borders so I have a left and right 1px border, then a 10px bottom border. But the bottom border is jagged, it looks like the left and right are trying to come over half of the bottom border but not all of it.
I've attached a screenshot of the problem (I've increased bottom-border to 25px to make it more obvious).
#id
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