# Css not applied
**URL:** https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/css-not-applied/577
**Category:** WordPress
**Created:** [January 7, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/css-not-applied/577 "2017-01-07T18:32:12Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@dakiriki](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/dakiriki)
#### Post date: [January 7, 2017, 6:32pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/css-not-applied/577/1 "2017-01-07T18:32:13Z")
Hi
I am starting my Pinegrow adventure, as with everything there are significant problems with finding a way around.
I am working wth HTML theme, want to preserve styles, but also to add some of mine.
One of my biggest issues is there is no css that I apply is not applied, I tried to add to style.css in theme nothing happens, I am very confused how this work.
Any help?
Thank you
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### Author:  [@Rob](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/Rob)
#### Post date: [January 9, 2017, 9:24pm UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/css-not-applied/577/2 "2017-01-09T21:24:43Z")
Hi @dakiriki. I’ll try to demonstrate how I do it when using the Bootstrap framework and hopefully it will be helpful to you. After opening PG and creating a new Bootstrap page then adding a row and column to the layout I’m going to apply css to the column background. Screenshot of pre-styled layout with the column I plan to style selected:
Then I click on the CSS tab followed by +Add rule, then I name my style and select whether I want to assign it to the selected element, in my case column ( **Create & Assign class** ) or not ( **Create** ).
Then I add whatever values I want to apply to this style. If I’ve chosen to **Create & Assign class** I see the changes applied to the column as I edit the style, see screenshot:
If I just opted for **Create** the style won’t be applied until I select the element (column) and in the CSS tab select the **+** symbol beside the style I wish to apply to the element I’ve already selected. If an element already has a style applied the **+** symbol displays as a **-** symbol so you can remove the style.
 
Hope this makes sense and that it helps you figure out how to apply styles. Any further questions feel free to ask.
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### Author:  [@dakiriki](https://forum.pinegrow.com/u/dakiriki)
#### Post date: [January 10, 2017, 9:52am UTC](https://forum.pinegrow.com/t/css-not-applied/577/3 "2017-01-10T09:52:55Z")
Sorry, I did not express myself correctly.
What I wanted to say is, I expect to have my custom CSS rules to be in `style.css of Wp theme` I am creating.
So, after a bit of play with importing CSS in Pinegrow I was able to get CSS rules to be written into `style.css`, but by looking at functions.php it appears that `get_template_directory_uri()` is pointing to HTML directory, not wp theme?
At first, I thought that problem was in the style.css file of HTML theme but remained after I renamed a file and imported my `style.css`.
So my question should be, I think:
1. How to keep existing styling of an HTML theme and add custom directly to`WP theme style.css` so it is ready to use?
2. How to get that `style.css` is properly recognized by WP, as changing path in `functions.php` does not help?
This is the part where I am getting confused, I figured part with creating CSS rules from the tutorial.
I am not WP noob but I am a noob in Pinegrow, that seem to be very good tool for rapid development.
This is my learning project and most likely I am making mistakes 🙂
I like what I see so far, just there are many blurry parts 🙂