Title: style.css changes overrode
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# style.css changes overrode

 *  [opentechschool](https://wordpress.org/support/users/opentechschool/)
 * (@opentechschool)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-changes-overrode/)
 * Hi,
 * I’m trying to edit the style.css file directly to make custom changes to the 
   theme, but since it is the first stylesheet called in the head tag, the other
   bootstrap stylesheets automatically override the changes.
 * I couldn’t find in the theme where the list of CSS files are called, and I don’t
   want to have to put ‘!important’ after every style I create – any suggestions?

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 *  [kmross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmross/)
 * (@kmross)
 * [10 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-changes-overrode/#post-6592731)
 * *removed*
 * Sorry – I commented on the wrong post.
 *  [alingham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alingham/)
 * (@alingham)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-changes-overrode/#post-6593045)
 * BUMP
    Having the same issue….
 *  [kmross](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kmross/)
 * (@kmross)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-changes-overrode/#post-6593046)
 * Can you post examples of the styles that are being overridden by the other stylesheets?
   You may need to be more specific in the CSS
 *  [alingham](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alingham/)
 * (@alingham)
 * [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-changes-overrode/#post-6593047)
 * Sure can.
 * I’ve used Chrome to Inspect the element and taken the “overriding” css straight
   from it and put it in the child theme style.css
 * It looks like it gets overridden by the code found in verbo/media/css/
 * The code that made me aware of this was when I tried to get the footer coloured
   right in a school website. [http://www.arakura.school.nz](http://www.arakura.school.nz)
 * The code I had added to the child theme style.css is as follows:
 *     ```
       footer aside{
           background:none;
           padding: 60px 0px 20px 0px;
           border-top: 1px solid #e4e4e4;
       }
       ```
   
 * The reason behind wanting background:none, is because I’ve attached a background
   image to the “footer” tag, but this is then blocked out by footer aside.
    The
   background for footer aside is for some reason defined within the index file 
   itself when the theme calls wp_footer(). Not sure why this is (and if you have
   a fix for this, or know what calls this, I’m all ears – though for now I’m more
   than happy just putting an !important on my style.css file).
 * But what brought the overriding stylesheets to my attention was when I tried 
   to change the border-top colour. As you can see, I’ve tried to make it #e4e4e4,
   but when I inspect the element, footer.css has overidden it with the default #
   f2f2f2.
 * I have tried creating a media/css/footer.css file inside the child theme, with
   no avail. It still fetches the styles for footer.css from the parent theme ‘verbo’.
 * Hopefully all of this makes sense.

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 * Last activity: [10 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylecss-changes-overrode/#post-6593047)
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