Custom CSS upload Fails

bidforwine · Member · Sep 19, 2008 at 12:11 am
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I’m using Kubrick as my theme (bidforwine.wordpress.com) and am trying to use ethe default CSS edited with changed text colours and fonts.

-If I select ‘Start from scratch and just use this’, the page doesn’t line up correctly
-If I paste in my changed CSS and select ‘Add this to the Kubrick theme’s CSS stylesheet’ nothing happens.

The CSS does work fine if I save the page down and use the edited CSS locally.

Any help much appreciated and thanks in advance!
vivianpaige · Member · Sep 19, 2008 at 12:18 am
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I’m no CSS expert by any means but I took a quick look at your modified CSS and it looks like you have some strange stuff in the field for body font-family.

The other thing is I see some HTML references in there. I don’t think that works here.
thesacredpath · Member · Sep 19, 2008 at 1:43 am
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Are you putting only the sections that you have changed into the CSS edit window or are you pasting the entire CSS after you make changes to it?

What I do, and have no problems with, is add only those specific sections that you change to the CSS edit box and then select “add to existing CSS.”‘

Example: If you were changing the fonts in the sidebar to comic sans MS, this is where it is in the original CSS:
```
#sidebar {
font-family:'Lucida Grande',Verdana,Arial,Sans-Serif;
font-size:1em;
font-size-adjust:none;
font-style:normal;
font-variant:normal;
font-weight:normal;
line-height:normal;
}
```
To change it to comic sans MS, you would add only the following to the CSS edit window:
```
#sidebar {
font-family:comic sans MS;
}
```
raincoaster · Member · Sep 19, 2008 at 7:29 am
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You would be FAR better off picking a different theme to modify. Kubrick is old, and it has many quirks and logical inconsistencies in the CSS. It’s notoriously cranky.
bidforwine · Member · Sep 19, 2008 at 10:55 pm
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Thanks for all the help. I switched over from Kubrick to Black Letterhead and had that up and running in a customised form within 30 mins.

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