Title: Change child theme CSS
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Change child theme CSS

 *  Resolved [DoingShanghai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doingshanghai/)
 * (@doingshanghai)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-child-theme-css/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m using wordpress through godaddy and am trying to change my child theme css.
   I’ve downloaded the ‘celebrate’ theme and created a child theme which is activated.
   When you visit my site you can see the celebrate theme with my information (I
   put in my own menu titles through the child theme path ‘appearance–>menus’), 
   but nothing changes when I try to change the CSS in the editor and press ‘update
   file’. This is my CSS: (I only tried to change the ‘color’ in the menu)
 *     ```
       /*
       Theme Name:     Celebrate-child
       Theme URI:      http://themehall.com/celebrate
       Description:    Child theme for the Celebrate theme
       Author:         emitiktak
       Author URI:     http://themehall.com/
       Template:       celebrate
       Version:        0.1.0
       */
   
       @import url("../celebrate/style.css");
   
       #menu-primary li a {
       display: inline-block;
       padding: 25px 25px;
       border-bottom: none;
       color: black;
       text-decoration: none;
       text-transform: uppercase;
       }
       ```
   
 * Does anyone know why this might be? Any help is appreciated!

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 *  [iampng](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iampng/)
 * (@iampng)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-child-theme-css/#post-3969652)
 * Under Appearance > Editor on the right hand side where it says ‘select theme 
   to edit’ did you select your child theme from the dropdown list & click ‘Select’
 *  Thread Starter [DoingShanghai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doingshanghai/)
 * (@doingshanghai)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-child-theme-css/#post-3969656)
 * Thanks for the reply. Yes, I did. I’ve also tried clearing the cache. Could it
   be that for certain themes you can’t change certain features purely through css
   and need to go into the php files? I also tried changing the header picture and
   the background colour through the editor but neither of those worked either.
 *  Thread Starter [DoingShanghai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doingshanghai/)
 * (@doingshanghai)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-child-theme-css/#post-3969658)
 * Also, when I try to edit the page from the actual site by pressing ‘edit page’,
   this error comes up: ‘You can’t edit this item because it is in the Trash. Please
   restore it and try again.’
 * But it is definitely active and not in the trash because I can make changes with
   things other than then editor (pages, menu, etc)
 *  Thread Starter [DoingShanghai](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doingshanghai/)
 * (@doingshanghai)
 * [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-child-theme-css/#post-3969705)
 * I switched from wordpress themes to my own coded site on godaddy, and then switched
   back to wordpress and that solved it.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/change-child-theme-css/#post-3969705)
 * Status: resolved

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