Editing child themes

  • bobwhitesel

    (@bobwhitesel)


    14 years ago

    I’m another newbie.
    I have created a child theme for twentyeleven
    I understand where to put the code I want to alter, but I don’t know to find the existing code to alter and place there.

    I saw this example of how to change site title color in the child theme:
    #site-title a {
    color: #009900;
    }
    Instead of site title color, I want to explore alternate fonts and line weights in the text of my posts. Where do I find the style.css that exists in the parent?
    Thanks!

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  • Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    14 years ago

    The best way to explore css is to use a tool like firebug for firefox, or (I believe) chrome and IE have some sort of tools built in

    These tools allow you to point/click to explore the elements on a page, and see what css rules are applying, and where (which file) the rules come from

    Sometimes, a parent theme (like 2011) won’t have the exact rule you are looking for. You may want to modify something quite specific… in that case again, firebug can be helpful, a general understanding of how to target things using css is quite helpful as well – for thet Google is a great tool

    Thread Starter bobwhitesel

    (@bobwhitesel)

    14 years ago

    Thanks very much!
    I’ll give that a try.
    Bob

    Rev. Voodoo

    (@rvoodoo)

    14 years ago

    Sure thing! It takes a bit to get the hang of these things. We can always help if you absolutely can’t figure out how to target something. I did most of my learning through trial and error to be honest!

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