Trouble creating header.php in Focus theme

[skstudio]

There is an !important the Genesis/lib/structure/header.php file that I want to remove from the file. I copied the header.php file straight over to the Focus child theme. I got this error without making any changes to the header.php file that I added to the Focus child: Fatal error: Cannot redeclare genesis_do_doctype() (previously declared in /home2/devhg/public_html/claire01/wp-content/themes/genesis/lib/structure/header.php:33) in /home2/devhg/public_html/claire01/wp-content/themes/focus/header.php on line 38

How can I get the header.php in the Focus child to work so I can keep my change whenever there is a Genesis update?

Thanks so much for your help.

[skstudio]

I solved my issue with the following:
- Using this link as a clue, I added code to the functions.php file: http://www.studiopress.community/topic/genesis-2-0-custom-header-problem-fix/ (thanks so much for this post)
- I took out the !important in the code that was added to the functions.php file. I was taking the !important out of the .site-title background area.
- Made sure that the curly quotes were straight quotes. There are single quotes and double quotes that you have to replace.
- I found I had to make sure the line: $output = ''; was actually $output=' '; there needed be a space between the single quotes,
- I had to add !important in the style.css .site-header background... to override the inline code.

I think I listed all the changes that I did to achieve my goal.

Hope this helps if someone runs into this.

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