Override Failure in CSS

[tinkerer]

kobra,
Please forgive me for not posting the URL. I have not yet secured the site and don't want any public attention. Not everyone is as helpful as you guys.

Stevesh,
I have the 2 CSS files in the same dir and I understand that they should load alphabetically. I have many other overrides in the stylesheet_overide.css file that work just fine. It seems that the classes I'm having a problem with are being completely ignored.

If I make changes to the classes in stylesheet.css I can see the result in the webpage. But, even if I comment out the class in stylesheet.css completely, I still can't get the stylesheet_override.css classes to have any effect.

I have tried deleting the classes from the stylesheet_override.css and then copy and paste from stylesheet.css to eliminate typos, but no luck.

I had a couple of questions.
1. If there is a syntax error in a css, does php stop parsing the file such that selectors after the error are not seen?
2. Is there a parsing log anywhere that might help identify the issue?

Thanks for the help. I'm green as grass on CSS and PHP. My previous web experience is all static Frontpage stuff.

[stevesh]

1. Not as far as I know.
2. Not as far as I know.

When I checked your additions by adding them to stylesheet.css in my test site, they worked as I described, so it almost has to be a conflict with the other stylesheet, or you're placing them in the wrong place in the new stylesheet.

Stylesheets are applied top to bottom. Occasionally, I'll change something in a sheet, only to have it not affect the page. Usually it turns out that the same selector exists below the place I changed it, and is overriding my changes.

Save that, one of us will need to see the site - you can PM a link if you want.