Title: Child-Theme .css not recognized
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Child-Theme .css not recognized

 *  [zel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zel/)
 * (@zel)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-css-not-recognized/)
 * Hello
    I made a child theme for my theme “catalyst”, made there some page templates
   and that works, but .css doesn’t seem to work.
 * /*
    Theme Name: catalyst-child Theme URI: Description: Author: Author URI: [http://inakademia.pl](http://inakademia.pl)
   Template: catalyst Version: 1.3 */ [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   url(“../catalyst/style.css”);
 * /* =Theme customization starts here
    ——————————————————- */
 * I have something like this in my style.css. But when I check the source it still
   imports the old .css
 * what can be wrong?
    thanks

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-css-not-recognized/#post-4535471)
 * >  it still imports the old .css
 * That would be correct. It is being imported by `@import url("../catalyst/style.
   css");`.
 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-css-not-recognized/#post-4535544)
 * In almost every case, you _want_ to import the parent theme’s style.css, because
   you don’t want to have to re-write every styling rule. After you import in the
   parent’s style.css, then you write your own rules to either add to the parent
   theme’s styling or override an existing CSS rule.
 *  Thread Starter [zel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zel/)
 * (@zel)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-css-not-recognized/#post-4535605)
 * Sorry, I’ve written it a little confusing. 🙂
 * Saying “it stills imports the old .css” I’ve meant, that it doesn’t load .css
   from my child theme, but the old one, from the parent theme.
 * When I insert any css after “import” it doesn’t show in my source. It’s still
   old css, pointing to the catalyst folder.
 * EDIT:
    ok, I managed to get it working. Just placed <link rel=”stylesheet” href
   =”<?php echo get_stylesheet_uri(); ?>” type=”text/css” media=”screen” /> inside
   my header.php of parent. Seems that wp_head(); of theme had absolute path to 
   css or smth 🙂 thanks!

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-css-not-recognized/#post-4535605)
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