Title: Not importing css
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Not importing css

 *  Resolved [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-importing-css/)
 * My style.css file has an [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)“
   css/master.css”; directive to import from elsewhere in the theme directory.
 * It’s always worked fine until recently, when sometimes it doesn’t load the css–
   whereupon the source shows <style>@import url(path removed) ;</style> rather 
   than <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”path removed”/>. I notice that
   the former is a local path (and incorrectly minus the leading slash to denote
   the root) whereas the latter is the full http url.
 * header.php has the usual <link rel=”stylesheet” type=”text/css” href=”<?php bloginfo(‘
   stylesheet_url’); ?>” />.

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 *  [Pioneer Web Design](https://wordpress.org/support/users/swansonphotos/)
 * (@swansonphotos)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-importing-css/#post-3988946)
 * Clear server and local browser cache.
 *  [The API Guys](https://wordpress.org/support/users/pbarthmaier/)
 * (@pbarthmaier)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-importing-css/#post-3988962)
 * Your themes should be in folders in your Themes folder in wp-content. So if you
   have two themes, say Parent and Child, they would both be in folders in /wp-content/
   themes/ subdirectory, such as /wp-content/themes/ParentTheme and /wp-content/
   themes/ChildTheme. The two themes are in a sister relationship, but in WordPress,
   the concept of a child theme is one that pulls style information in from the 
   parent theme using an import statement. The openeing information of your child
   theme should look like this example:
 *     ```
       /*
       Theme Name: ChildTheme
       Template: ParentTheme
       Description: Child theme
       Author: Me
       Author URI: http://wow.mythemes.wow
       */
   
       @import url("../ParentTheme/style.css");
       ```
   
 * Be sure that your syntax of the [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/)
   URL is correct. In this case, the Template the child theme is looking for is 
   the name of the folder where the style.css is located for the Parent theme.
 *  Thread Starter [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-importing-css/#post-3988982)
 * Thanks to you both.

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 * Last reply from: [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/not-importing-css/#post-3988982)
 * Status: resolved

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