Title: CSS help in Child Theme
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# CSS help in Child Theme

 *  Resolved [karikirch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karikirch/)
 * (@karikirch)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-help-in-child-theme/)
 * Hi
    Have realised that a theme I purchased is probably going to go through quite
   a few updates and have read that it would be best to create a child theme so 
   that changes don’t get overridden with the updates. I’ve created a style.css 
   file in the child theme folder and understand about changing basic body and fonts.
   However I am having a problem trying to change the background for a top menu 
   bar. This is the code from parent theme:
 *     ```
       #header .top-bar-bg
       {
       	width:100%;
       	overflow:hidden;
       	margin:auto;
       	background:#444; /*NEED TO CHANGE THIS BACKGROUND COLOR*/
       	border-bottom:1px solid #393939;
       	margin-bottom:5px;
       }
       ```
   
 * Any help with this would then help me with other CSS that needs modified.
    Many
   Thanks

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-help-in-child-theme/#post-2998043)
 * What do you want to change the background to?
 *  Thread Starter [karikirch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karikirch/)
 * (@karikirch)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-help-in-child-theme/#post-2998057)
 * Just another color #0584C1.
    What I’ve been reading is that you don’t have to
   include everything but just what is required. For instance in the body tag from
   parent theme:
 *     ```
       body
       {
       	font-size:12px;
       	text-align:center;
       	font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
       	color:#333;
       	margin:0px;
       	padding:0px;
       	background:#f2f2f2
       }
       ```
   
 * In Child Theme all I put into the style.css file was:
    `body {background:#ffffff;}`
   and this worked.
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-help-in-child-theme/#post-2998059)
 * `background` is short-hand for combinations of these properties;
    background-
   color background-image background-repeat background-attachment background-position
 * If you want specifically a background colour, use background-color.
    [http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/css/css_background.asp)
 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-help-in-child-theme/#post-2998062)
 * > What I’ve been reading is that you don’t have to include everything but just
   > what is required.
 * this basically answers your own question.
 * have you tried to add this to style.css in ths child theme:
 *     ```
       #header .top-bar-bg
       {
       	background: #0584C1; /*CHANGEd THIS BACKGROUND COLOR*/
       }
       ```
   
 * and remember to clear the browser cache (‘CTRL F5’ oder whatever is needed…)
 * if you have further problems, please post a link to your site;
    and also contact
   the seller of your commercial theme, as support should be included in the purchase
   price.
 *  Thread Starter [karikirch](https://wordpress.org/support/users/karikirch/)
 * (@karikirch)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-help-in-child-theme/#post-2998072)
 * Well that worked, which is what I tried earlier, hence posting this message. 
   Must have been a cache thing – cleared history.
    Thanks guys, appreciate the 
   speedy input.

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