Wordpress Child theme for html5blank - php

Question

I'm having so much trouble setting up a child theme of the html5blank theme. To the point where I'm doing a fresh install of the parent theme and starting from scratch - and writing this post as I go through it! Basically upon creating the child them I now need to load my custom /css/main.css file - and it's not having it! Description of setup process follows:
I've dropped a freshly downloaded html5blank folder into /themes/ and activated it. After that I have created another folder within /themes/ called "html5blank-child". Within that I've created a new, blank style.css and functions.php.
Within style.css I have the following:
/*
Theme Name: HTML5 Blank Child
Theme URI: http://example.com/twenty-fifteen-child/
Description: HTML5 Blank Child Theme
Author: My Name
Author URI: http://myportfolio.com
Template: html5blank
Version: 1.0.0
License: GNU General Public License v2 or later
License URI: http://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-2.0.html
Tags: light, dark, two-columns, right-sidebar, responsive-layout, accessibility-ready
Text Domain: html5blank-child
*/
And within functions.php I have:
<?php
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
}
?>
With all that done, I active my child theme. With all that done, everything still appears to be working. As I've created static templates of the website, I drop my 'img', 'css', 'font' and 'js' folders into the html5blank-child.
Now my 'actual' CSS file has a path of: html5blank-child/css/main.css
I need to load this file in. I was told to adjust my functions.php CSS path to: /css/main.css ...but it won't load the file at all. I've also tried using get_stylesheet_directory_uri() instead of get_template_directory_uri() as was advised by someone else but no luck!
The reason I've documented the process like this is, last time I got to this point if I went to access the Wordpress admin using http://localhost:8888/websitename/admin it won't redirect to wp-admin like it normally does. Also when I went to save a post, I've get a blank page. Thankfully that isn't happening this time so I guess it's a good (better) start but now I need to get my files loaded in.
Hope someone can help! :)

Answer 1

You need to import the style.css from main theme first inside the style.css of the child theme.
Use #import to import the css file first.
Also remove the parent-style from functions.php of child theme and then include your html5blank-child/css/main.css like the following given,
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'child-main', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/css/main.css' );
}

Answer 2

Load the parent themes style.css first, then load your child themes CSS like this:
add_action( 'wp_enqueue_scripts', 'my_theme_enqueue_styles' );
function my_theme_enqueue_styles() {
wp_enqueue_style( 'parent-style', get_template_directory_uri() . '/style.css' );
wp_enqueue_style( 'child-main', get_stylesheet_directory_uri() . '/css/main.css', array('parent-style') );
}