Title: CSS not working with underscore theme
Last modified: April 1, 2019

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# CSS not working with underscore theme

 *  [amandarollins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/amandarollins/)
 * (@amandarollins)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-not-working-with-underscore-theme/)
 * Hello – looking to customize several aspects of my page but custom CSS is not
   working.
 * 1. How can I override this so that I can use custom CSS?
    2. Once I figure that
   part out, could someone help me with which CSS coding I need to add to do the
   following?
 * – change the body font
    – change the size of the body font – make the width of
   the body paragraphs on each post page wider – add a side bar (this is a widget,
   yes?)
 * Thank you so much!
    The theme was built using underscore
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   to see the link]_

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 *  [Jarret](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jarretc/)
 * (@jarretc)
 * [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-not-working-with-underscore-theme/#post-11385338)
 * CSS settings go by the last set value in the site code based upon order. So if
   you have something like `body {font-family: Tahoma;}` set on line 1 of the source
   code and then `body {font-family: Arial;}` set on line 10 of the source code,
   the Arial font will take over.
 * If you are having issues with overriding CSS and can’t place it far enough down
   in the code you can use the `!important` to get it to override.
 *     ```
       * {
       	font-family: Comic Sans MS !important;
       	font-size: 10px !important;
       }
       ```
   
 * For the width of the post content, this should give you a start
 *     ```
       #primary .post {
       	width: 800px;
       }
       ```
   
 * Not sure about a sidebar as I haven’t used the theme but I would guess yes.

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 * Last activity: [7 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/css-not-working-with-underscore-theme/#post-11385338)
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