Title: editing css
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# editing css

 *  [hiline1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiline1/)
 * (@hiline1)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-4/)
 * I see I am unable to edit css in existing themes. All I really wanted to do is
   change font color in h1, h2, h3 tags and re-arrange a couple font styles. Is 
   this possible? In the css edit dialog I added some code but wasn’t able to get
   it to work.

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 *  [flamenco](https://wordpress.org/support/users/flamenco/)
 * (@flamenco)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-4/#post-2025882)
 * I have run into this problem on various hosts. In these cases it has been a file
   permissions problem, so it appears that I can make the change, but I can’t actually
   save the changes. I have used FTP to log into the site, look at the files, and
   change the file permissions to something more “lax”, then I can save it. As an
   example, if the permission on the style.css file was 644, I might have to loosen
   it to, say, 755. Then, to be safe, you can reset the permissions to the original
   setting.
 * When this doesn’t work, sometimes I’ve had to download the file (again, with 
   FTP), edit it, and upload again. Inconvenient, but will work, even if you don’t
   change file permissions at all.
 * Hope that helps.
 *  Thread Starter [hiline1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiline1/)
 * (@hiline1)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-4/#post-2025955)
 * yep. That should get me there. Thank You flamenco

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 * Last reply from: [hiline1](https://wordpress.org/support/users/hiline1/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-css-4/#post-2025955)
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