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  • October 22, 2014 at 8:17 pm #339716
    Adendum

    I have had to comment out the entire #Forms section of the base.css file to allow me to use my preferred forms generator but that means future theme updates will overwrite the base.css file. So how do I maintain my version of the base.css file so that theme updates leave or allow my version of the css to be used?

    If I was adding or changing css I wouldn’t have a problem obviously but I’ve never had a situation where I needed to disable part of a theme’s css.

    I am using the Enfold Child theme btw.

    October 22, 2014 at 8:37 pm #339732
    Josue

    Hi!

    Copy the modified base.css to your child theme directory (css/base.css) and add this to child functions.php file:

    // Change base.css
function wp_change_basecss() {
   if(!is_admin()){
   		wp_dequeue_style( 'avia-base' );
   		wp_enqueue_style( 'avia-base-child', get_stylesheet_directory_uri().'/css/base.css', array(), '2', 'all' );
   }
}
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'wp_change_gridcss', 100 );

    That will dequeue the default base.css and enqueue the child one instead.

    Best regards,
    Josue

    October 23, 2014 at 12:11 am #339828
    Adendum

    Thanks Josue,

    But does this actually help I wonder? If the original bass.css plus my edits is copied to the child folder and the added function effectively says ignore the main base.css and use the child base.css how does that allow for any updated css you guys make?

    So if in the next theme update there is one edit or a hundred edits or even new css I wont ever see that because the function says ignore that and use the child base.css that has sat there for the last xx months.

    If I am adding some custom css or changing something from the default file it’s easy and I just use the custom facility in the theme so that my css overrides the default but what I need to do is eliminate SOME (just the #Form parts) of the default.

    Or have I missed something?

    October 24, 2014 at 7:17 am #340476
    Ismael

    Hey!

    Looks like the only solution to your problem is to copy the #Form section of the base.css on Quick CSS or the child theme’s style.css file. Modify the code to override the base.css default #Form style.

    Best regards,
    Ismael

    October 24, 2014 at 9:06 pm #340781
    Adendum

    Errr, that’s not so easy….

    That means I need to match up all the classes that are conflicting with my plugin and use the values from the plugin in the child css…..

    Hmmm, that’s kind of a major pain.

    I’ll report back :(

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