Title: Child Theme edit
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Child Theme edit

 *  [j](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justyngh/)
 * (@justyngh)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit/)
 * I have made a child theme and am trying to edit it, and change things that the
   parent theme would not let me change, but for some reasons, no changes have been
   made. The style.css sheet says they have but I cannot see them on my website.
   Can anyone tell me why. Thanks in advance.

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 *  [stephencottontail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephencottontail/)
 * (@stephencottontail)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit/#post-5067176)
 * Can you post a link to your website?
 *  Thread Starter [j](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justyngh/)
 * (@justyngh)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit/#post-5067181)
 * Sure [ncwebsitebuilder.com](http://www.ncwebsitebuilder.com).
 *  [stephencottontail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephencottontail/)
 * (@stephencottontail)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit/#post-5067210)
 * When I look at your site, everything seems to be working correctly. Your site
   is correctly using your child theme’s stylesheet and you have correctly `@import`
   ed the parent theme’s stylesheet. Can you post an example of a CSS change that
   doesn’t work as expected?
 *  Thread Starter [j](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justyngh/)
 * (@justyngh)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit/#post-5067254)
 * .main-navigation .navbar-inner {
    padding: 0; min-height: 13px; border: 1px solid;
   border-radius: 3px; background: #000000; box-shadow: none;
 * The menu still has it’s gradient. How can I change that? I took the gradient 
   out of here where it says background and put in the background color I wanted.
 *  [stephencottontail](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stephencottontail/)
 * (@stephencottontail)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit/#post-5067272)
 * Huh, I didn’t even see that gradient. My eyes must be going. What’s happening
   here is that the gradient is controlled by a separate stylesheet named `black.
   css` that loads after your child theme’s stylesheet, so its rules override those
   in your child theme’s stylesheet. A quick fix would be to add `!important` after
   the color declaration like this:
 * `background: #000000 !important;`
 * Note that it comes after the color code but before the semicolon. You could also
   modify the theme so that the black stylesheet loads before your child theme’s
   stylesheet, but as I am not familiar with your theme, I couldn’t tell you exactly
   how to accomplish that.
 *  Thread Starter [j](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justyngh/)
 * (@justyngh)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit/#post-5067287)
 * Thank you I am trying the “!important” now and my theme is iFeaturepro5.
 *  Thread Starter [j](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justyngh/)
 * (@justyngh)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit/#post-5067288)
 * The “!important” worked, thank you.
 *  Thread Starter [j](https://wordpress.org/support/users/justyngh/)
 * (@justyngh)
 * [11 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-edit/#post-5067289)
 * I also need help with my footer. If you could be so kind.

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