child theme css

Try changing it to:

<link href="<?php echo get_stylesheet_uri(); ?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

or

<link href="<?php echo get_stylesheet_directory_uri(); ?>/style.css" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/get_stylesheet_uri
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Function_Reference/get_stylesheet_directory_uri

“template_directory” is the directory of the parent theme.

I tried both and after adding the code the layout of my site is totally messed up. ??

Did you import the stylesheet of the parent theme in your child theme’s stylesheet?
https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes#Example_of_a_basic_Child_Theme

Can you post a link to your site?

Yes I did. I can’t give you a link to the site because I’m working on it locally using instant wordpress.
Here’s my child theme style.css file but not much to get wrong there.

/*
Theme Name: Flexibility3 Child
Description: Child theme for Flexibility3 theme
Template: Flexibility3
Version: 3.0
*/
@import url('..\flexibility3\style.css');

I also tried the following line of code in my header to link to my style.css file but no luck.
<link href="<?php echo get_stylesheet_uri(); ?>" rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" />

The “Template” directory name of the parent theme is case-sensitive. Try it with:

/*
Theme Name: Flexibility3 Child
Description: Child theme for Flexibility3 theme
Template: flexibility3
Version: 3.0
*/
@import url('..\flexibility3\style.css');

NOTE. You have to switch to a different theme and back to the child theme when you modify this line.

(Or is your parent theme direrectory “Flexibility3”?)

It is “Flexibility3” so no luck there either. I think the problem is in my header. It seems there’s more than one way to link to the style sheet and I’m not quite sure how to do it.

If it’s “Flexibility3” then use that for the @import rule as well:

@import url('..\Flexibility3\style.css');

Nothing’s working! There’s no styling applied to the page at all now.

I may have missed it and apologize if I did (coffee): can you post a link to your site? That often helps us figure out what’s wrong.

The slashes are backwards in that @ import line.

[edit] well spotted WPyogi

Ok, finally got it. Hahaha…Feeling a bit stupid now. I thought it was probably something simple like that. You have to be careful when copying and pasting code!
Thanks everyone for your help.