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Thank you Konstantin. I still can’t change the css. I have made child themes for other themes which all work well. Below is my style.css code

/*
Theme Name: The Bootstrap Child
Version: 1.0
Theme URI:
Description: A child theme for The Bootstrap
Author: pgb
Template: the-bootstrap
*/

@import url(../the-bootstrap/style.css);

#page {
    background-color: #0656a2;
}
h1 {
    font-size: 30px;
}

The background color doesn’t change and the h1 doesn’t get smaller.
Do you have any other suggestions? Thanks.

Thank you WPyogi. I have renamed the folder for the child theme without numbers and that has solved the problem. A lesson learnt!
Thanks also to Andrew and Caroline.

Sorry it’s jazz 2013

jazz 2011

Yes, that’s another child theme I made of 2012. That doesn’t work either.

Thank you Andrew. I will leave the site on my child theme for about half an hour, for you to see. There is no styling.

I copied all the styles from sixhours style.css to my my child style.css but this did not work, there was still no styling, just html.

https://www.jimrattigan.com

At the moment I am using the sixhours theme.

More apologies. I have made a child theme of twenty twelve and this has also not inherited the style.css of twenty twelve. Perhaps something is wrong with my WordPress 3.5 installation!

Many apologies!

I have my child theme in place now. I had the template name as Sixhours, I have changed it to sixhours and everything is in place. I have no styles in my child theme style.css but neither has the website. It has not inherited the style.css of sixhours.

Have I missed something?

Thank you Caroline. I was using the above style as an example. I have done as you suggest and reinstalled Sixhours, I even reinstalled my child theme but I still get the same message The parent theme is missing. Please install the “Sixhours” parent theme.

Is there anything else to try?

An update to the problem is when I try to activate my child theme, it doesn’t work. I then activate Sixhours but I get a message at the bottom of the Themes page ‘The parent theme is missing. Please install the “Sixhours” parent theme.’

Bizarre! Has anybody else encountered this problem?

I’ve figured it out thanks. I read the documentation

Great advice, it works. Many thanks

Thanks for that. I’ll do that and see what happens.