Title: CSS Not applying?
Last modified: January 26, 2018

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# CSS Not applying?

 *  Resolved [ccroslow](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ccroslow/)
 * (@ccroslow)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-not-applying/)
 * So, I’m sure this has to do with CSS execution ordering, but there’s a question
   in here…
 * I’ve been trying to edit the site-title text on a webpage for about an hour now
   using this tool. Usually this tool works great! overwrites most other things,
   but in this case, it’s not. I’ve gotten the actual CSS to work in browser extensions
   or chrome dev tools, so I know it’s not the actual code that’s the issue here.
 * The only way I was able to actually get it to work, was to go into the custom
   css settings under appearance, and add the code there (which I HATE doing because
   it ends up being a huge unorganized mess.)
 * Thoughts? We were using woocommerce, with the boutique-storefront child theme.

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 *  Plugin Author [SilkyPress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diana_burduja/)
 * (@diana_burduja)
 * [8 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-not-applying/#post-9907311)
 * A WordPress installation shows the CSS in the following order:
    1. Theme’s and
   plugins’ external stylesheets (intermixed) 2. Other plugins’ internal CSS/JS 
   and Simple Custom CSS and JS internal and external stylesheets (intermixed) 3.
   CSS codes added with the theme’s Customizer
 * So, the plugin will not overwrite CSS added with the theme’s Customizer. As for
   the overwriting CSS added by another plugin, it depends on the order in which
   the WordPress installation executes each plugin. Unfortunately we can’t influence
   that.
 * You asked for thoughts, so you got thoughts. Of course I don’t know your specific
   case, nor do I know what exactly you wanted to overwrite and why it didn’t.
 *  [kahana82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kahana82/)
 * (@kahana82)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-not-applying/#post-9990476)
 * Adding “!important” to the css lines ?
    For example: height: 100% !important;
 *  Plugin Author [SilkyPress](https://wordpress.org/support/users/diana_burduja/)
 * (@diana_burduja)
 * [8 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-not-applying/#post-9991018)
 * Yes, “!important” will overwrite a CSS rule later defined, but only if the later
   defined rule also doesn’t have an “!important” directive.

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