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Can you have multiple stylesheets?
Answer. Yes, you can apply more than one stylesheet to an HTML file. For each stylesheet you link to a page, you would just need to add an additional element. When linking multiple CSS files, the styles are applied in the order that they are linked in the HTML document.
How can multiple style sheets be used together on a webpage?
Style sheets are, effectively, concatenated into a single style sheet in the order in which they appear in the HTML source. Yes, you can include multiple style sheets, but you need to label them as alternate style sheets and give the user some way to activate them using JavaScript – perhaps by clicking a link.
How to enqueue parent theme stylesheet in CSS?
On it, Konstantin pointed out that using the CSS @import directive to import the parent theme stylesheet from the child theme style.css will double the time needed for the stylesheets to load, and showed us a better way to do it by enqueuing the parent theme stylesheet from our child theme’s functions.php file (more about it in a moment).
How are child themes kept separate from parent themes?
In this way, customizations are kept separate from the parent theme’s files. Using a child theme lets you upgrade the parent theme without affecting the customizations you’ve made to your site.
How to import parent theme stylesheet in WordPress?
Actually, the old method of importing the parent theme stylesheet by using @import is no longer considered best practice as reflected on the WordPress Codex (although at the moment of publishing this post it still appears in some WordPress documentation, as in the case of the Theme Handbook for instance).
How to make a child theme in WordPress?
It’s best practice to give a child theme the same name as the parent, but with -child appended to the end. For example, if you were making a child theme of twentyfifteen, then the directory would be named twentyfifteen-child. 2. Create a stylesheet: style.css # 2. Create a stylesheet: style.css