enqueuing child theme page specific styles

Hi,

The child theme style.css should be enqueued in the child theme as well – if you do it in the parent theme you would lose the changes after a theme update, and preventing that is the purpose of child themes.

Try making the page styles more specific, to override the default CSS. Here is an article about CSS specificity: https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2007/07/css-specificity-things-you-should-know/

Hope that helps.

Hello,

First of all thank you for your response. Perhaps in my initial and first “how to” post I should have given more detail.

I am using the twentyfourteen theme and my understanding is that the following line in its functions.php file will always load the active theme stylesheet be it parent or child
wp_enqueue_style( 'twentyfourteen-style', get_stylesheet_uri() );

So my situation is one in which my child functions.php loads its parent style and then page specific styles after which the parent functions.php loads the child style and I had thought that a solution might lie in somehow changing the order of stylesheet loadings.

I resorted to using !important in the page specific css that I did not want overridden.I knew nothing of css specificity so I thank you for that reference as it will certainly help prioritise styling.

However I still think there must be a way to better enqueue the stylesheets so for a time I will leave this post as unresolved.

Regards to all