Hello,
I have run into an issue with the Flexform theme (v.1.61) for WordPress (v.3.9), where it suddenly stopped applying the styling written in the style sheet.
There are several confusing points:
1. There is some limited partial styling; certain text elements, for instance, will accept styles for color, font-face, font-size, etc., but won’t apply styling for positioning like margins. This is true for less than 10% of the overall style though–the rest of the content shows up as plain text and images with no styling applied at all (due, I think, to the issue described in number 2 below).
2. There are selectors that exist in my style sheet, such as IDs for divs, that are not being read and don’t appear in the code when I inspect the element in a browser.
3. If I make live changes via firebug or chrome inspector, sometimes they will take effect, and sometimes not. And if I update the style sheet, the changes are always lost.
I have tried several fixes to no avail, including: Disabling plugins, applying a child theme, updating both the theme and WordPress, creating a totally new instance of the site with a fresh WordPress and theme install (and then adding my CSS to the style.css file), validating my code with the W3C validator (it’s clean), resetting my cache, resetting the transients in the database, ensuring the style sheet is correctly linked…the list goes on.
At this point I am at a total loss as to what the issue could be. What causes a style sheet to simply not be read?
Unfortunately, due to the nature of the project, I am unable to provide a link to the site, but any illumination in terms of why CSS wouldn’t be read would be most gracious.
Thank you in advance.
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