How to load parent theme style.css?

At the top of your child themes style.css add:

@import url("../twentyeleven/style.css");

Obviously replace twentyeleven with your parent themes folder.

2016 – This practice has now been replaced by declaring the ‘Template’ in your theme stylesheet header:

Template:     twentyfifteen

https://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes

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