Issues with child theme

  • rffnralk

    (@rffnralk)


    12 years, 1 month ago

    Hello,

    I have been really enjoying the theme, but I am struggling with getting changes in the child theme to appear on my website. Some changes have gone through, but most have not. Oddly enough when I used the Custom CSS Manager they work fine.

    An example: I wanted to change the font color and size on the word “Follow” on the upper right. I put this code into the child theme style.css

    .sidebar-top p { float: left; color: #444; font-size: 14px; font-weight: 600; text-transform: uppercase; line-height: 10px;

    With the intention of making the font darker and smaller (since by default it is white font and 16px font.

    When I put that into the child theme style.css the change does not happen, but when I put it into the custom CSS manager it does work. I guess I am not understanding why that issue is occurring and how to resolve it.

    Only code I have gotten to work in the childtheme style.css was

    {.entry { color: #000000; }
{.entry.excerpt { color: #222 !important; }
#content { color:#000}

    in order to change some default font colors.

    Any guesses as to what might cause this issue?

    Thanks

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  • Alexander Agnarson

    (@alxmedia)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    Hi!

    There is some CSS issues there in the code you pasted.

    The first one is missing a } at the very end of it.

    These two:

    {.entry { color: #000000; }
{.entry.excerpt { color: #222 !important; }

    Have a { in the very beginning which can’t be there. There should always only be one opening { after the class name, and one closing } at the end of the style properties for it.

    So, correct is:

    .class { font-weight: bold; }

    And not:

    {.class { font-weight: bold; }
or
.class { font-weight: bold;

    See if that fixes it, and also make sure that your child theme is the active theme in Appearance > Themes.

    Thread Starter rffnralk

    (@rffnralk)

    12 years, 1 month ago

    Thanks Alex I’ll double check those and see if they then work in the child theme style sheet after modifying them. Odd enough they worked in the custom CSS manager though. Any ventures as to why?

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