Title: Ignore CSS
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Ignore CSS

 *  [CCworker](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ccworker/)
 * (@ccworker)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ignore-css/)
 * First post here so Im sorry if I put this question in the wrong place. I created
   a few pages for use specifically with our WebView app.
 * However, I was wanting to know if there is a way to have those pages ignore all
   CSS used with our main website. I think the answer is applying a [page-template](https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/template-files-section/page-template-files/page-templates/)
   but the site just isnt making much sense to me.
 * Can anyone help me with this page-template? is there a better/simpler solution?
   Thanks in advance.

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 *  [dominic_ks](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dominic_ks/)
 * (@dominic_ks)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/ignore-css/#post-7021261)
 * Hi CCworker,
 * I was looking into this recently, and in short it’s not that straight forward
   to ignore a load of CSS or a whole CSS file(s), especially when working with 
   WordPress as the theme is loaded straight from the style.css file meaning that
   this isn’t even queued by php ( which would give you the opportunity to selectively
   load it )
 * Using another page template is a method that can help load additional CSS specific
   to that page, but not necessarily ignore other CSS, but actually would be overkill
   in my opinion anyway.
 * Couple of ideas you can try ( though without seeing your site or your “WebView”
   app, I can only really be quite generic ):
 * 1. Deregister and Dequeue css files that you don’t want
    – Check out [this thread on stack overflow](http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/65523/how-do-i-dequeue-a-parent-themes-css-file)–
   shows how to use a couple of functions to remove style sheets, requires you to
   know the handles of the sheets you want to remove and set the priority of the
   add_action statement correctly ( i.e. after those styles are loaded ) – NB. I’m
   yet to successfully remove a theme’s base style.css by this method – You’d need
   to either create a new page template by copying page.php and renaming it, if 
   your theme has one, or add this code to you functions.php inside some sort of
   condition e.g. `( get_the_id() === $page_id ) ? //dequeue scripts : //don't dequeue
   scripts;`
 * 2. Create / load / use specific CSS for the elements in your app that override
   your theme’s CSS
    – Could take a little while to override all of the theme’s 
   CSS that you need to, but having specific CSS for specific elements in your app(
   i.e. using IDs and Classes ) will mean you keep control over it and haven’t messed
   with other styles you might want to keep, e.g. for your header and menu
 * 3. Move the app out of WordPress
    – If your app doesn’t actually need to be inside
   WordPress, you could move it to a standalone file / set of files and link directly
   to that, therefore bypassing all of your sites normal styling
 * Hope this helps,

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