Title: Editing child theme CSS
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Editing child theme CSS

 *  Resolved [kscomp0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kscomp0/)
 * (@kscomp0)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-child-theme-css/)
 * Human Child Theme
    Newbie
 * I am trying to change the overall text color on a new site to black from Hueman’s
   default gray.
 * I have checked through past questions and referenced the theme’s directions, 
   but I still don’t understand how this works. Any help would be most appreciated!
 * I decided to use the child theme as this seemed like the preferred way to make
   any changes to the theme outside of the included options, which includes the 
   text color.
 * I downloaded, installed, and activated the child theme. Then I opened up the 
   editor of the child theme to add code to the child’s style.css.
 * The following is displayed in the editor:
 * /*
    Theme Name: Hueman Child Theme URI: [http://alxmedia.se/themes/hueman/](http://alxmedia.se/themes/hueman/)
   Description: Sample child theme for customization. Author: You Author URI: Template:
   hueman Version: 1.0.0 */
 * [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) url(“../hueman/style.css”);
 * /* ————————————————————————- *
    * Theme customization starts here /* ————————————————————————-*/
 * /* Global */
    .mystyle {}
 * /* Tablet – 800px, 768px & 720px */
    [@media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/media/)
   only screen and (min-width: 720px) and (max-width: 800px) { .mystyle {} }
 * /* Mobile – 480px & 320px */
    [@media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/media/)
   only screen and (max-width: 719px) { .mystyle {} }
 * /* Mobile – 320px */
    [@media](https://wordpress.org/support/users/media/) only
   screen and (max-width: 479px) { .mystyle {} }
 * 1) What is the proper way to modify this to make the text on the site black?
   
   I tried adding: body { color: #000; } to the end of the file, but that did not
   work.
 * 2) Do I need to make the modifications inside the “{}” for one of the .mystyle
   classes?
    I assume that these are there to permit different styles to be applied
   to different screen sizes.
 * Thank you.

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 *  [bdbrown](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bdbrown/)
 * (@bdbrown)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-child-theme-css/#post-5525344)
 * 1. Seems like “body” should cover page and post content; odd that you didn’t 
   see any change. You probably need to add .widget and .entry.excerpt classes. 
   You may also need to specifically target ids and/or classes in areas like the
   heading, footer, menus and plugins to override the default styles. If that doesn’t
   seem to work, post a link to your site and we’ll take a look to see if we can
   figure out why.
    2. No and correct.
 *  Thread Starter [kscomp0](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kscomp0/)
 * (@kscomp0)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-child-theme-css/#post-5525419)
 * Thank you for the help, bdbrown!
    I found out that I had to clear the cache with
   my host, and that displayed the changes.

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