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sorry, but that’s a bit much for me. Are you essentially saying i need to find how the theme is using blue.css and then link it to the child theme’s blue.css?

2) think i’ve done this, just @import blue.css into child theme’s stylesheet?
3)think this is my main problem, been trawling codex stuff all morning, no idea how to do this
4) don’t know either

https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Child_Themes
theres a bit in there with exactly what to do with your child theme.

have you set the category widget, and its not showing up?

yes, you select which colour scheme you use in theme option. Is there a way of transferring all the ‘links’ to the child theme’s blue.css, or will it have to be done for each individual function of the file?

to be extra sure, i’ve made all the paths the full url, and the footer image is still being determined by the parent blue.css file.

its displaying all down the left hand side now, and the bit i changed in blue.css now has no style rule.
just to confirm, i was @importing /parent/style.css and /child/colorstyles/blue.css ?

i don’t think there is anything overriding blue.css, the other day i was trying to change the colours but couldn’t find anything in style.css.
In the browser i see the blue.css definitions, but the directory has magically reappeared. i’ll check that its definitely the parent blue.css thats controlling things, then i’ll try importing them both.

oh right, looked kinda standard to me

/*
Theme Name: Bellechild
Theme URI:
Description: like this - Simple, Light, clean XHTML web 2.0 WordPress Theme with Custom header and Theme options witch include a color scheme picker that allow you to pick from your choice of orange, red, blue, green, or yellow color schemes. You can also include custom social links like twitter or facebook.
Version: 1.7
Author: me
Author URI:
Template:       belle
Version:        0.1.0
*/

@import url("/colorstyles/blue.css");

/*--------------------General Classes---------------*/
body {
	background: #ffffff url("images/body.jpg") repeat-x top left;
	padding: 0px 0px 40px;
	margin: 0px;
       font-family: "Lucida Grande", "Lucida Sans Unicode", Verdana, Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
	font-size:12px;

thats the first few lines

don’t know what you mean, sorry. i can see the titles just fine.
cool blog btw

line 21 of style.css

a {
    color: #807D7A;

change that to #000000

before /*----general classes

@import url(“/colorstyles/blue.css”) is showing up in firebug, but its not affecting the page. any ideas?

my path goes back this far – wp-content/themes/childbelle/colorstyles/blue.css
its now showing up as a rule in firebug, but when i examine the footer the source url hasn’t changed to what was in the file i’ve directed it to.
the blue.css files were in a different directory, and i still don’t know how exactly they work.

do i need to use the full url?

i’ll give that a try.