Title: Editing CSS
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Editing CSS

 *  Resolved [michaelfterry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelfterry/)
 * (@michaelfterry)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-1/)
 * I’m new at WordPress (and web design for that matter), and have a question regarding
   editing CSS.
 * I have a template, but would like to edit the CSS. I know that I need to change
   the permissions from my cPanel, but am not sure which ones to change. I am pretty
   sure they need to be 755…but could be wrong about that also.
 * Michael

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 *  [Lucian Florian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fldtrace/)
 * (@fldtrace)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-1/#post-1123284)
 * I don’t think you need to set any permission. Just go in your admin control panel,
   open the editor on left menu and the first file opens up is style.css.
 *  Thread Starter [michaelfterry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelfterry/)
 * (@michaelfterry)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-1/#post-1123338)
 * How do I make it savable though? It says this under the box, “You need to make
   this file writable before you can save your changes. See the Codex for more information.”
 * Thanks for the help,
    Michael
 *  [Lucian Florian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fldtrace/)
 * (@fldtrace)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-1/#post-1123355)
 * In this case you need to give it permissions chmod-777.
 * You can do that by going in your hosting provider control panel, open file manager
   and cheack attributes: reading and writing.
 * You can do that using an ftp software as well.
 * Here is the link to codex [topic](http://codex.wordpress.org/Changing_File_Permissions).
 *  Thread Starter [michaelfterry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelfterry/)
 * (@michaelfterry)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-1/#post-1123359)
 * I changed the cPanel to 777, though it is still not allowing me to “save.” Are
   there specific files that I need to make 777?
 * Thanks for the help.
 * Michael
 *  [Lucian Florian](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fldtrace/)
 * (@fldtrace)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-1/#post-1123372)
 * you need to change chmod for style.css from within active template folder.
 *  Thread Starter [michaelfterry](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelfterry/)
 * (@michaelfterry)
 * [16 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-1/#post-1123375)
 * Sweet! Thanks a ton! I appreciate the help.
 * Michael

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