Title: styles.css isn’t being read Last modified: August 18, 2016 --- # styles.css isn’t being read * [kko88](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kko88/) * (@kko88) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylescss-isnt-being-read/) * I’m new to WordPress so I don’t know a lot of the template code or how to use them. That and I’ve only used MovableType before and it used .html files rather than .php so that doesn’t help much. I’m working on a layout that I want to carry over from MT but I keep encountering problems, mainly with my .css file. My latest “text index” can be seen at [http://kko88.u69.us/wordpress/indexnaru.php.](http://kko88.u69.us/wordpress/indexnaru.php.) If you go there you can see it’s not…nice. It’s as if the template is disregarding the .css file altogether =\ Rather than what you just saw (if you went to the url, sorry I’m not sure how to make links) the layout should look similar to this: [http://kko88.u69.us/index.html](http://kko88.u69.us/index.html) (disregard the random MT code). As you can see, there’s quite a bit of difference. Hopefully a fresh pair of eyes can spot the problem as to why the second is so… not right. Could someone please help me please? I would really appreciate it. Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) * [Mark (podz)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/podz/) * (@podz) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylescss-isnt-being-read/#post-90551) * `@import url( http://kko88.u69.us/wordpress//*wp-layout*/styles.css );` Make that `@import url( http://kko88.u69.us/wordpress/styles.css );` and it should be good 🙂 * Thread Starter [kko88](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kko88/) * (@kko88) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylescss-isnt-being-read/#post-90675) * Thanks podz, that helped. But now the css file won’t listen to me. Like the fonts and such are still default and everything is out of place compared to [http://kko88.u69.us/](http://kko88.u69.us/)( note: still [http://kko88.u69.us/wordpress/indexnaru.php](http://kko88.u69.us/wordpress/indexnaru.php) that’s broken). Anyone have any ideas as to why this is happening? All help is appreciated. * [timeistight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timeistight/) * (@timeistight) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylescss-isnt-being-read/#post-90678) * You have two `` tags on that page. I don’t know if that’s your problem, but it can’t be good. I think your first step should be getting your page to work (and validate) with the default style sheet. That should make it much easier to debug your new style sheet. * Thread Starter [kko88](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kko88/) * (@kko88) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylescss-isnt-being-read/#post-90681) * Thanks, I didn’t catch the two tages. (Not sure what it fixed but oh well) By default style-sheet, do you mean the wp-layout.css and/or wp-print.css? I’m not sure what you mean by validate either. Thanks! * Thread Starter [kko88](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kko88/) * (@kko88) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylescss-isnt-being-read/#post-90684) * Thanks to timeistight’s comment about getting my page to work with the default style sheet (although I still don’t know what that means…) I just copied and pasted my .php file and made a duplicate .html file. With that it was easier to find bugs and such because I just like html better :p I ended up deleting: _________________________ or
are from the original wp-layout.css. Could you also tell me as to what the 2 lines I deleted actually do? Thanks again. * Anonymous * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylescss-isnt-being-read/#post-90713) * What I’m recommending is getting your HTML working before worrying about your CSS. I thought that temporarily using a know-to-be-good stylesheet might make that easier. The two lines you deleted are the DOCTYPE, which you can read about here: [Fix Your Site With the Right DOCTYPE](http://www.alistapart.com/articles/doctype/), and the opening HTML tag which should contain all the HTML on your page. When you leave out required tags, or get them in the wrong ordered, it becomes much more difficult to predict how any given browser will interpret your page. Mark Pilgrim explained this far better than I could in [Why we won’t help you](http://diveintomark.org/archives/2003/05/05/why_we_wont_help_you). Good luck! * [timeistight](https://wordpress.org/support/users/timeistight/) * (@timeistight) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylescss-isnt-being-read/#post-90717) * er, that was me. * Thread Starter [kko88](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kko88/) * (@kko88) * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylescss-isnt-being-read/#post-90718) * Thanks for all the help. The final problem was that I had to change the option to show only 1 post on the front page rather than 20. Thanks for all your help timeistight and podz! Viewing 10 replies - 1 through 10 (of 10 total) The topic ‘styles.css isn’t being read’ is closed to new replies. * 10 replies * 4 participants * Last reply from: [kko88](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kko88/) * Last activity: [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/stylescss-isnt-being-read/#post-90718) * Status: not resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics