Beginner WebDev question regarding WordPress Themes & Plugins

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I may not know the exact terminology so thanks for bearing with me.

My question is about WordPress Themes and Plugins.

There’s my scenario:

* I install WordPress in a webhost
* Everything is smooth, I chose a theme I like and install it.
* I install some plugins and this is where the problems start.

Almost every plugin has a CSS style in it’s own. Say my theme has text, password, number etc. inputs with 10px padding. But the plugin I install has different CSS values for those HTML elements.

So, you can imagine, I have to try and remove those styles from the CSS files in plugin or add extra CSS in WordPress > Additional CSS.

Is there something I can do so the HTML elements from plugins will inherit the CSS styles from the theme and ignore the styles set by the developer?

And, is this a good practice for plugin developers? Adding custom styles to their plugins that will make the site look different whenever that plugin is being executed in the front-end?

Sorry for the long question and thanks in advance for any help & tips!

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1 Comment
  1. I’ve never had that happen. What plugin are you installing that is changing your global styles? If you’re just referring to form inputs, I guess a form builder would do that, but a few lines of css would ‘fix’ that.

 

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