My child stylesheet (style.css) is not working

ps. You will only see an Elementor Canvas coming soon page for now!

Hello, do you use this code in your functions.php file to call your style.css file: https://github.com/oceanwp/oceanwp-child-theme/blob/master/functions.php#L22

Do I need to?

Should the style.css not just work out of the box?

But, no, I don’t…

Yes you need to call your child theme css file with this function.

Oh, I wish this was better documented! I did many a google search and never saw anything about this. Is it normal practice? I’ve only ever used Woo Canvas theme…

So, I just make a copy of the functions file inside the child theme and put the following code at the bottom aye?

function oceanwp_child_enqueue_parent_style() {
	// Dynamically get version number of the parent stylesheet (lets browsers re-cache your stylesheet when you update your theme)
	$theme   = wp_get_theme( 'OceanWP' );
	$version = $theme->get( 'Version' );
	// Load the stylesheet
    wp_enqueue_style( 'child-style', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/style.css', array( 'oceanwp-style' ), $version );
    // If RTL, uncomment this line
    /*if ( is_rtl() ) {
		wp_enqueue_style( 'oceanwp-rtl', get_template_directory_uri() . '/rtl.css', array(), $version );
	}*/
	
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'oceanwp_child_enqueue_parent_style' );

When I add that to the functions file, and upload it to the child theme I get a fatal error:

Fatal error: Cannot declare class OCEANWP_Theme_Class, because the name is already in use in /home/lochmora/public_html/eilidhshawrossmartin.com/wp-content/themes/oceanwp/functions.php on line 25

Do not take the parent theme’s functions.php file.
Download the child theme and add your changes in it: https://github.com/oceanwp/oceanwp-child-theme

Oh, this is a different way of working than I originally learned, why do it this way? Interesting (and wish I had known about this before!!!)

The parent theme’s functions.php file is never to be put in the child theme.
A child theme is only if you want to make changes to the parent theme without losing them when upgrading.