help editing CSS: Chrome developer tools, can't select CSS

[Alex Hough]

Hello there,

in my developer tools, sometimes the CSS is blocked out in grey. I can't change the settings. Any one know why?

I thought it was when TW needed saving, i don't think it is

best wishes

Alex

[Tobias Beer]

A quote from stackoverflow:

The "faded" styles are ones that are not applied to the selected tag. So in your screenshot, you have an h1 rule which is normal colored -- that one is applied to whatever element you have selected -- and you have an .SubHeader h1 rule that is not being applied to the selected element.
You'll sometimes see this is you dynamically add a CSS rule (the + button in the chrome dev tools) but modify the selector so it doesn't apply to whichever element you have selected.

Best wishes,

Tobias.