Title: CSS, from Theming Perspective
Last modified: November 27, 2018

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# CSS, from Theming Perspective

 *  Resolved [rogerlos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rogerlos/)
 * (@rogerlos)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-from-theming-perspective/)
 * This is a neat set of blocks, but why does it set so many specific styles for
   things which, rightly, this plugin should leave to the theme? I mean, why are
   anchors styled in the accordion? Why are paragraphs or headers, for that matter?
 * I mean…
 * \`
    div[class*=”wp-block-atomic”].ab-font-size-18.ab-block-accordion p `
 * The level of specificity in the rule above is going to stomp on the theme’s stylesheet
   without a lot of `!important` or other shenanigans.

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 *  Plugin Author [atomicblocks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/atomicblocks/)
 * (@atomicblocks)
 * [7 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-from-theming-perspective/#post-10926468)
 * Hi there,
 * Thanks for your feedback. We’re definitely working on some improvements to the
   styling. The reason for the specificity here is trying to ensure a cohesive look
   across the blocks. Theme styles are notoriously all over the place and can make
   styling the blocks themselves a pain. Although you want your blocks to take on
   some of the theme’s styling, you don’t want it relying heavily on the theme because
   often theme styles themselves aren’t done very well. It’s a bit of a back and
   forth between plugin and theme styles.
 * There are some improvements coming to Gutenberg that will let us write styles
   a little differently and hopefully that helps clear this up.

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