Title: CSS Horizontal menus
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# CSS Horizontal menus

 *  [am5279wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/am5279wp/)
 * (@am5279wp)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-horizontal-menus/)
 * Hi,
 * I have selected a theme for my wordpress and I have added a horizontal menu to
   one of my pages by copy-pasting the stuff in the CSS Horizontal menus tutorial:
   [https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Horizontal_Menus](https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_Horizontal_Menus)
 * BUT: how do I find out where to add the css part so that the styling will actually
   apply? I don’t seem to be able to search for and find the stylesheet that works
   with this page and this part of my theme … is there a smart way to find the css
   style sheet where I need to insert the code? It is quite tiring to have to scroll
   through all the css style sheets of the entire theme 🙁
 * Thanks for your help
    Anna

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 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-horizontal-menus/#post-6819995)
 * You should not be modifying any of the theme’s files directly. If the theme gets
   updated because of feature enhancements, bug fixes, or security patches, or if
   the theme has to be updated because of a change to the WordPress core, then your
   changes will be lost. Instead, either create a [child theme](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   and add your menu’s CSS to your child theme’s style.css file, or use a CSS plugin
   like Jetpack or [Custom CSS Manager](http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-css-manager-plugin/)
   and add your CSS that way.
 * I’m surprised, though, that you would have to code your own horizontal menu. 
   Most themes have horizontal menus by default, and you only need to go to **Appearance
   → Menus** to set up the specific menu items that you want. Or are you adding 
   your own custom menu in addition to the theme’s menu?
 *  Thread Starter [am5279wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/am5279wp/)
 * (@am5279wp)
 * [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-horizontal-menus/#post-6820014)
 * Hi,
 * yes, I have a nice theme, but would like to build on top of it.
 * I will try to do some of the things you suggest.
 * Best
    Anna

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 * Last reply from: [am5279wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/am5279wp/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-horizontal-menus/#post-6820014)
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