Title: Custom CSS intermittenly not changing theme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

---

# Custom CSS intermittenly not changing theme

 *  Resolved [mynameismark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mynameismark/)
 * (@mynameismark)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-intermittenly-not-changing-theme/)
 * Hi!
 * First off, great theme, big thank you to the author!
 * Having trouble changing widget separator colour in Custom CSS window:
 * .widget-title {
    color:#669900; font-size:26px; border-bottom:20px solid #669900;
   padding:0 0 10px 0; margin:0 0 20px 0}
 * Makes no difference whatsoever.
 * Am I not doing this right? It works for other css changes I have made, such as
   title font colours etc. Not this though…
 * Best to all, Mark

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

 *  [Tareq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/worthingtech/)
 * (@worthingtech)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-intermittenly-not-changing-theme/#post-4594930)
 * It works when I do it.
 * Post a link to your site, I’ll have a look.
 *  [batharoy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/batharoy/)
 * (@batharoy)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-intermittenly-not-changing-theme/#post-4594936)
 * Try
 *     ```
       h3.widget-title {
           border-bottom: 20px solid #669900;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [mynameismark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mynameismark/)
 * (@mynameismark)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-intermittenly-not-changing-theme/#post-4594958)
 * Thanks Tareq, here it is:
 * oncapitalpartners dotcom.
 * batharoy, thx for suggestion, had tried that actually… no joy.. strange huh?
 * Incidentally, just installed the recent theme update (think it was released today?).
 * Still nuttin…
 *  [Tareq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/worthingtech/)
 * (@worthingtech)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-intermittenly-not-changing-theme/#post-4594973)
 * Still working fine for me. However, just noticed this style is being overridden
   by
 * > woo.css
 * !
 * You’ll find this at
 * > fruitful/woocommerce/woo.css
 * And you’ll need to edit line 175 where the
 * > border-bottom
 *  is currently
 * > #f15a23
 *  Thread Starter [mynameismark](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mynameismark/)
 * (@mynameismark)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-intermittenly-not-changing-theme/#post-4595003)
 * Well spotted Tareq! Not only did you show me what to change, but I never realised
   you could spot the css overrides from “inspect element” from chrome… brilliant
   cheers!
 * I thought that the custom css took precedence over all other css files… apparently
   not…
 * You can’t change the css by referencing the file in the custom css box can you?
 * Thanks again Tareq, I’ve chnaged it in the source css docs, I’m guessing I’ll
   have to change that now every time there’s an upgrade of the theme… not ideal
   but hey, never mind..
 *  [Tareq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/worthingtech/)
 * (@worthingtech)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-intermittenly-not-changing-theme/#post-4595018)
 * No problem, glad I could help.
 * The next time an update for your theme is available, you could just do a backup,
   then update the theme, create a child theme and then include your custom styles
   in the child themes style.css!
 * The custom CSS section in the theme options essentially creates a child stylesheet
   so you shouldn’t need to [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   the base style.css into it. Having said that, the child overrides I believe will
   only override the base style.css, and not those in subdirectories.
 * Hope this clears things up for you!

Viewing 6 replies - 1 through 6 (of 6 total)

The topic ‘Custom CSS intermittenly not changing theme’ is closed to new replies.

 * ![](https://i0.wp.com/themes.svn.wordpress.org/fruitful/3.8.2/screenshot.png)
 * Fruitful
 * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/fruitful/)
 * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/fruitful/active/)
 * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/fruitful/unresolved/)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/theme/fruitful/reviews/)

## Tags

 * [fruitful](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/fruitful/)

 * 6 replies
 * 3 participants
 * Last reply from: [Tareq](https://wordpress.org/support/users/worthingtech/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-intermittenly-not-changing-theme/#post-4595018)
 * Status: resolved