tedwad

ok so I tried firefox and firebug. Firebug is a fantastic tool, and I was baffled at first because it revealed I had indeed been looking in all the right places in the parent stylesheet.

The problem in the end was that I was adding the changed styles on the bottom of the child theme’s stylesheet, and as I said in my first post it made no difference whatsoever. When I added the changes further up the page, amongst changes I had previously made (ones which worked) then they immediately took effect, so problem solved.
Is there an explanation for this?

sorted it out myself. I think. as well as changing the child theme’s template name to match the parent theme, the import url must match it as well and mine didn’t so I changed it and it seemed to work.