Child theme – no formatting – been trying for hours!

Hello

I have just done a new WP installation and created a child theme before I’ve done anything else, such as create pages, posts etc. However, when I activate the child theme the site has no formatting at all and, try as I might, I cannot get it to look as it does with the parent theme.

I have tried deactivating all the plugins, but that doesn’t make any difference.

The style.css file for the parent theme is in it’s own css folder within its theme folder, but I have referenced that in the child theme’s Import URL tag.

Looking at the source code for the parent site, I notice that style.css has ?ver=3.8.1 referenced – see below. Would this stop the child theme being able to pick up the parent style file?

<link rel=’stylesheet’ id=’main_css-css’ href=’https://www.hands-on-hr.com/wp-content/themes/aeron/css/style.css?ver=3.8.1&#8242; type=’text/css’ media=’all’ />

I don’t have the child theme working at the moment, only the parent theme.

This is what my child theme style.css says:-

//*
Theme Name: Aeron Child
Theme URI: https://www.ab-themes.com
Description: Aeron Child Theme
Author: John Doe
Author URI: https://www.ab-themes.com
Template: aeron
Version: 2.1.4
*/

/* =Imports styles from the parent theme
————————————————————– */
@import url(‘../aeron/css/style.css’);

/* =Theme customization starts here
————————————————————– */

Any help greatly appreciated.