CSS Stylesheet of standard WP template cant be found.

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    mcpdob · Member ·

    I cant see the original CSS of my theme. It seems that WordPress did change the admin panel again since I last played with another blog?
    In order to change the background colours of my menu I need to over write the standard CSS. If I try with firebug I can see the CSS setting. The class is displayed but has some wired ending of ASCII signs.
    We are using Customized BonPress by WPZOOM.
    navigation-main a {
    color: #2D2D2D;
    display: block;
    text-decoration: none;
    What we want to archive is to give each of the menu items a different background color or better a picture wich we can swop when the user hovers over the links. Ideally we have a jpeg in the background which enhances out of the menu into the content section and back. Like a role over button. Can you please help an clarify where a) we can see the full CSS Stylesheet applied. And how we integrate / role over a jpeg by hover over? Thanks Dirk

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    See this post by Panos. He explains where you can find the CSS. Hopefully they will put the link back in for the original CSS, but then again, the CSS for themes now is spread over several CSS files, not just one, so that makes things more difficult and makes the main CSS file less useful.

    http://wpbtips.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/where-is-the-theme-css-and-how-do-i-edit-it/ .

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    mcpdob · Member ·

    You made my day mate. Really hidden now :-)
    Don’t like that they make it harder and harder to get to these settings.
    Guess it is for a reason but the reason is not obvious.
    That you can mess up the theme is pretty obvious when you start with CSS. Anyway my point is: Thank you very much.

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    designsimply · Member ·

    Don’t like that they make it harder and harder to get to these settings.
    Guess it is for a reason but the reason is not obvious.

    There are two main reasons. The first is that people kept copying the entire original theme CSS stylesheet into the editor—and that breaks stuff, you should only copy everything if you are advanced with CSS and now how to adjust it properly to make it work (i.e. the url() values specifically). The second reason is that you can get to all of the CSS you need pretty easily using the built in web inspectors in all modern web browsers. You can find the web inspector by right-clicking on any element and then selecting the “Inspect Element” option. It should pull up the HTML for what you clicked on and all of the CSS that applies to it on the right.

    I’m quite interested in your feedback on this topic. Have you used your browser’s web inspetor before? How did you originally learn CSS and where to find the existing CSS? Did you ever find it by looking at the CSS linked in the <head> element in the page source?

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