Changes to style.css yield no results.

  • Hey everyone,

    I hope that this question is not too theme specific. I’m using Skeleton, which is unique child theme of Hybrid (Skeleton and Hybrid.)

    To my knowledge, I’ve done everything correctly. (Everything I have been doing since using wordpress, at least.) There are two folders, the child theme has been selected, and the “template” points back to the parent. When I make changes to the style.css file, however… nothing. The changes do not show at all. Nothing does. This is the case for Chrome, Safari and FireFox.

    When I use Firebug to inspect the code, none of the original CSS in the file shows. (Skeleton comes pre-loaded with all the element, h1, p, etc.) When I choose to make a new rule using Firebug, the rule will take effect, however.

    I am confused as to what is going wrong. I’ve tried everything I can, which isn’t much. Any thoughts as to what can be the mixup?

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  • Child stylesheets completely overwrite parent stylesheets unless the parent stylesheet is explicitly inported. That is, the parent stylesheet does not get loaded automatically. Do you think that could be the problem?

    Thread Starter 7Vyse

    (@7vyse)

    While it could be, the CSS that gets loaded is all entirely blank. It is just one big template:

    h1{}
h2{}
h3{}
...

    And so on. Edits to that do nothing. Even if the parent CSS was being imported in some incorrect way, I wouldn’t even know what’s importing it.

    To import the parent stylesheet you have to write the @import statement into the child stylesheet. It is explained in the codex. If you didn’t do that the parent stylesheet is not being imported.

    I use FireBug and the Web Developer addon for FireFox, then the following:

    Load Page > F12 > CSS (Firebug Window) > View Stylesheets

    Then you will see which stylesheets are loaded.

    HTH

    David

    Have you provided a URL? I don’t see one, unless the Skeleton or Hybrid sites are yours.

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