Title: Child Theme custom CSS not working
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Child Theme custom CSS not working

 *  [ariellejewels](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ariellejewels/)
 * (@ariellejewels)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-custom-css-not-working/)
 * I created a child theme for the mystile theme and any changes I make in the stylesheet
   do not go live. It is not a caching issue, I have cleared caching from my browser
   and host and nothing seems to be working. I have also checked on a different 
   browser and the changes are not working there either.
 * I can create and delete pages, no problem there. So the child theme is working
   just not the css I add into style.css.
 * e.g. I added this code into style.css to decrease the whitespace above and below
   my logo but it does nothing. It’s driving me batty so any help would be greatly
   appreciated 🙂
 * #header {
    padding-bottom: 0em; padding-top: 1em; }

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 *  [dimitris33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimitris33/)
 * (@dimitris33)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-custom-css-not-working/#post-6633900)
 * could you post your url please to see the code?
 *  Thread Starter [ariellejewels](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ariellejewels/)
 * (@ariellejewels)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-custom-css-not-working/#post-6634041)
 * thank you, it’s ariellejewels.com
 *  Thread Starter [ariellejewels](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ariellejewels/)
 * (@ariellejewels)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-custom-css-not-working/#post-6634042)
 * This is the code in the child theme style.css
 * [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) url(‘../mystile/style.
   css’);
 * /*
    Theme Name: Mystile Child Theme URI: Description: Child theme for the Mystile
   theme Author: [WooThemes](http://www.woothemes.com) Author URI: Template: mystile
   Version: 1.3.9 */
 * /* Generated by Orbisius Child Theme Creator ([http://club.orbisius.com/products/wordpress-plugins/orbisius-child-theme-creator/](http://club.orbisius.com/products/wordpress-plugins/orbisius-child-theme-creator/))
   on Thu, 08 Oct 2015 06:17:27 +0000 */
 * #header {
    padding-bottom: 0em; padding-top: 1em; }
 *  [David_G](https://wordpress.org/support/users/questas_admin/)
 * (@questas_admin)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-custom-css-not-working/#post-6634044)
 * It looks like it’s working, have you cleared your browser cache?
 *  [dimitris33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimitris33/)
 * (@dimitris33)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-custom-css-not-working/#post-6634052)
 * I think the problem is the order of your child theme’s css, you need to put it
   under the default theme’s, instead of using this plugin to create it, delete 
   it (make a backup if you wish) and simply create a child like explained here
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
 * if it is only css you want to change you can try a custom css box too.
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-custom-css/)

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 * [child](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child/)
 * [child theme](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-theme/)
 * [mystile](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/mystile/)

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 5 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [dimitris33](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dimitris33/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-custom-css-not-working/#post-6634052)
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