Title: Edit CSS menu
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Edit CSS menu

 *  [rjrobinson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rjrobinson/)
 * (@rjrobinson)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-css-menu/)
 * I have three copies of Montezuma installed, each driving a separate child theme.
   On two, the Appearance menu includes an option entitled Edit CSS. The other doesn’t.
   Can anyone tell me:
 * 1. Why is this, and how can I get access to this option on all three installations?
   
   2. What file is this accessing – I don’t see any file name, but it seems to be
   controlling various options and styles I’d like to be able to change on the installation
   where it doesn’t appear. 3. I know Montezuma includes a map of the CSS files,
   but can anyone tell me in what order they are cascaded?

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 *  [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * (@crouchingbruin)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-css-menu/#post-5565705)
    1. I’m guessing that the **Edit CSS** option that you are seeing in the Appearance
       menu is because you have the Custom CSS option activated in the JetPack plugin.
       So on the third Montezuma installation, install JetPack (if it hasn’t been installed,
       yet), then activate the Custom CSS option (**JetPack > Settings > Custom CSS**).
    2. It’s not accessing a file, the CSS rules are stored in a database table. When
       you first install JetPack for a site and activate the Custom CSS option, you
       are given a “tabula rosa” in the Custom CSS: no existing rules are given. You
       would use the Custom CSS field to override any existing rules or add new ones.
    3. The virtual CSS files are written to a physical file in the same order in which
       they appear on the left when you go to **Appearance > Montezuma Options > CSS
       Files**.
 * So there are a few different ways that people work with the CSS in Montezuma:
    1. Make changes to the rules in the virtual CSS files. For example, if you wanted
       to change the font size of the widgets, you could go into the **widgets.css**
       virtual CSS file and make a change to this rule:
    2.     ```
           .widget {
              font-size: 14px;
              line-height: 1.3;
              color:   #666666;
              margin-bottom: 30px;
           }
           ```
       
    3. Add an overriding rule at the end of the **various.css** file. Because **various.
       css** gets loaded after all of the other virtual CSS files (except for **clearfix.
       css**), you could add a overriding rule using the same selector:
    4.     ```
           .widget {
              font-size: 20px;
           }
           ```
       
    5. Even though the selectors are identical, this rule will take precedence over
       the previous rule in **widgets.css** because it appears later in the sequence.
    6. Use a CSS plugin like JetPack to add your overriding CSS. This is similar to
       the previous point, you can add a rule with an identical selector to override
       an existing rule because the CSS from plugins will come after the CSS from the
       theme.
 * Which technique to choose is a matter of personal preference. I generally follow#
   3, a CSS plugin, although the plugin I use is called [Custom CSS Manager](http://wordpress.org/plugins/custom-css-manager-plugin/).
   I started off doing #1, but it was too tedious trying to hunt down the rule(s)
   that I wanted to change in the specific virtual CSS file, so I just started writing
   rules to override the existing rules rather than changing the existing rules.
   It increases the amount of CSS that’s loaded, which could affect the load time
   for the site, but I don’t think it’s significant.

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 * Last reply from: [CrouchingBruin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/crouchingbruin/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/edit-css-menu/#post-5565705)
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