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Why is child style not overriding parent theme?
I updated the directory of the parent theme to the location of the current parent theme, but I still have an issue of my new stylesheet not overwriting the parent’s child theme. It seems like the parent’s stylesheet is being loaded after the child style sheet.
Do you need a CSS file for a child theme?
The Only Essential File required to Create a Child theme is a style.css file. And If your parent theme also has all the important styles in style.css you are in luck. You need not create any more files in your child theme.
How to remove specific styles from the parent theme CSS?
The most straightforward way would be to use the selectors and rules you want to override, and set them to new or default values. Since child theme CSS is lower up in the “cascade” of styles than the parent CSS, there shouldn’t be a need for “!important” statements and such.
How to add child style to parent CSS file?
Here is the PARENT (main.css) file: Here is the CHILD (style.css) file: Try to use the following. In your add_action ( ) call add the priority and tell if it solves the issue. It is probably because the rules in their stylesheet have higher Specificity. add !important after one of your css rules and see if it works then.
Is the parent stylesheet loaded after the child style sheet?
It seems like the parent’s stylesheet is being loaded after the child style sheet. When I inspect the element with Firefox it shows that the parent stylesheet is overwriting the child stylesheet. What am I doing wrong and how can I fix this so the child stylesheet is loaded after the parent stylesheet? Here is the PARENT (main.css) file:
Where is the parent theme stylesheet located in PHP?
The issue I am having is that the stylesheet for my parent theme isn’t located in the traditional themedirectory/style.css. They did all the styling in themedirectory/assets/css/main.css. So I tried to create the child theme and added the following code to my functions.php file: