Title: Parent – Child Theme and CSS
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Parent – Child Theme and CSS

 *  Resolved [member-wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/member-wp/)
 * (@member-wp)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-child-theme-and-css/)
 * Hi,
    Could you tell me where to find the parent style sheet to obtain info for
   creating a css.style file for a child theme? Thank you.

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-child-theme-and-css/#post-3059838)
 * The parent style sheet should be named, “style.css” and be one directory up from
   your Child Theme, I.E in this directory;
 *     ```
       /wp-content/themes/yourTheme/
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [member-wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/member-wp/)
 * (@member-wp)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-child-theme-and-css/#post-3060135)
 * Thanks so much, Andrew!
 *  Thread Starter [member-wp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/member-wp/)
 * (@member-wp)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/parent-child-theme-and-css/#post-3060140)
 * Hi Andrew,
    I’m not finding the buddypress theme in this file? Apologies if I
   needed to specify the buddypress theme.

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## Tags

 * [child](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child/)
 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [parent](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/parent/)
 * [style sheet](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/style-sheet/)

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