Title: Main.css versus Style.css
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Main.css versus Style.css

 *  [rdader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdader/)
 * (@rdader)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maincss-versus-stylecss/)
 * I’ve read that if I want to change something in Style.css for a child theme, 
   I just include that single item to be changed in the Style.css in the child theme
   and it overrides the identical style item in the parent Style.css.
 * What if I want to change something in Main.css in the css subdirectory? Do I 
   put that in Style.css, too, or will a parallel main.css in the child directory
   override the parent main.css?
 * Thanks.

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maincss-versus-stylecss/#post-4708255)
 * Even if something is in another stylesheet you still override it in your Child
   Theme style.css file. If it turns out the thing you want to override cannot just
   be copied into your Child Theme style.css file because it is being loaded _after
   _your style.css file then you can just use more specific selectors to override
   it.
 *  Thread Starter [rdader](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rdader/)
 * (@rdader)
 * [12 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/maincss-versus-stylecss/#post-4708265)
 * Got it. Thank you.

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 * [main.css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/main-css/)
 * [style.css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/style-css/)

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