Title: Problems creating child theme
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Problems creating child theme

 *  Resolved [sanomi78](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sanomi78/)
 * (@sanomi78)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-child-theme/)
 * Great theme!
 * My problem:
 * I am trying to create a child theme of Decode so i can implement some changes.
   I used the guide on [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   to create one.
 * My problem is: the child theme doesn’t seem to inherit the parents CSS and has
   no ‘style’ at all.
 * The style.css i use in my decode-child map:
 * /*
    Theme Name: Decode Child Theme URI: [http://scotthsmith.com/projects/decode/](http://scotthsmith.com/projects/decode/)
   Description: Decode Theme Author: Edwin van Thillo Author URI: [http://www.vanthillo.eu](http://www.vanthillo.eu)
   Template: decode Version: 1.0.0 */
 * [@import](https://wordpress.org/support/users/import/) url(“../decode/style.css”);
 * /* =Theme customization starts here
    ————————————————————– */
 * Can you help me?

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 *  [Scott Smith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottsmith/)
 * (@scottsmith)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-child-theme/page/2/#post-4444666)
 * Steven, I couldn’t have said it better myself. Thanks for adding that.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problems-creating-child-theme/page/2/#post-4444666)
 * Status: resolved