Title: Child theme customization
Last modified: September 30, 2017

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# Child theme customization

 *  [devexel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devexel/)
 * (@devexel)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-customization-3/)
 * I’m trying to customize the CSS styles of Newspaper-X through a child theme, 
   however, any styles I redefine on my child theme stylesheet are overrun by the
   SCSS styles from the parent theme. How can I avoid modifying the parent theme
   in order to implement all my customizations through the child theme?

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 *  [Vinod Dalvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinod-dalvi/)
 * (@vinod-dalvi)
 * [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-customization-3/#post-9546413)
 * Hi [@devexel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/devexel/),
 * I hope you are well today and thank you for your question.
 * It seems you are facing the CSS specificity issue so please make sure your child
   theme CSS is more specific than parent theme CSS as described in the following
   pages.
 * [https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/css-specificity-things-you-should-know/](https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/css-specificity-things-you-should-know/)
   
   [https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Specificity](https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/Specificity)
   [https://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity/](https://css-tricks.com/specifics-on-css-specificity/)
 * Best regards,
    Vinod Dalvi

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 * Last reply from: [Vinod Dalvi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/vinod-dalvi/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/child-theme-customization-3/#post-9546413)
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