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Child theme css changes won’t work without !important

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Sara
9 years ago · Last reply by Alex S 9 years ago

I’m using the Vantage theme – really liking it so far! I’m making quite a few customisations, so I used your child theme starter to create a child theme.

I’ve made a number of changes in the child style.css, but they don’t show on the site unless I use !important for each change. I’ve never had this problem before with other themes.

Any ideas what’s causing the issue? I guess it’s something to do with priorities, but I thought child style.css was always given priority over the parent css?

Thanks

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  1. Sara 9 years, 1 month ago

    I’ve marked as closed, as I think I’ve worked out what was going wrong. I think it was a combination of:

    • some of the child css being overwritten by settings in Appearance > Customise
    • specificity
  2. Alex S Staff 9 years, 1 month ago

    Hi Sara,

    Glad you managed to figure this one out. I’m sorry I wasn’t able to be of assistance this time. Please be sure to post another thread if you have any other questions.

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