child-theme – why doesn't it pull parent css?

[valgalla]

I'm new to the Genesis framework and am confused about it's child-themes. The Genesis theme itself has it's own theme stylesheet but you're required to install a child-them to use Genesis. The child-themes I've seen (ex. Genesis Sample http://demo.studiopress.com/genesis-sample/) totally recreate the stylesheet. That seems pointless to me—can someone tell me what I missing? Is there a best-practice way to import the parent style sheet and customize the child styles off of it?

http://demo.studiopress.com/genesis-sample/

[Christoph]

Hi,

If you import the parent stylesheet, you are betting that there won't be any breaking changes made to it.

That´s why you are using the child themes' stylesheet.

The Framework just recently removed the column classes from its stylesheet.
Not a problem when using a child theme but quite a few people ran into problems because they were not using a child theme or imported the parent stylesheet.

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[valgalla]

Thanks, but other child-themes (for example, a Twenty Fifteen child-theme) would use @import url("..."); to build off of the parent styles—is that acceptable with Genesis?

[Christoph]

You can do whatever you want.
Just don't be surprised if things are breaking later on.

Twenty-fifteen is pretty much set-in-stone.
Not much will ever change.

Genesis is being actively developed.
If Studiopress decides to remove most styling from the Framework / parent theme next year, you will have to fix a lot of broken websites.

That being said, if you are looking for an official statement from Studiopress, you should contact support at my.studiopress.com/help

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