# Stupid question about CSS changes

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**Created:** [April 19, 2026, 10:00am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/stupid-question-about-css-changes/2935 "2026-04-19T10:00:48Z")\
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**Author:** ![leanderl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@leanderl](https://zola.discourse.group/u/leanderl)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2026, 10:00am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/stupid-question-about-css-changes/2935/1 "2026-04-19T10:00:48Z")

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I’m a bit stuck on how I’d configure my project so that changes I do to the CSS come through in my `zola serve` dev environment. I’m using the Linkita theme. Just to test I set color:red to .font-bold, but it doesn’t do anything… I’m only used to webpack/vite development, so I’m a bit stuck on what steps to take here…

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**Author:** ![leanderl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f4b2a3/32.png) [@leanderl](https://zola.discourse.group/u/leanderl)\
**Post date:** [April 19, 2026, 11:04am UTC](https://zola.discourse.group/t/stupid-question-about-css-changes/2935/2 "2026-04-19T11:04:32Z")

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Hello, yet again, asking about it in the forum seems to help me find the answer myself.  
So what you do is to cd into the theme directory and run `npm install`. After that you can run `npm run dev:css` – this will only compile the tailwind css and has no serve function like in some projects where npm run dev usually starts a small server for you. In parallell you have a `zola serve` running in a different terminal window in order to see your local dev site.  
Changes are applied in `themes/{themename}/static/app.css`