Wordpress child theme style.css not working

Question

I have created a file structure in the same format as my parent theme. My parent theme is called Alpine and within Alpine there is a functions.php and style.css file. There do n

Answer 1

Craig Hick's answer worked for me and I also realize why my default code from the Wordpress documentation wasn't working.

  get('Version')
    ); }

In my case, the line wp_get_theme()->get('Version') returned 1.0.0 which was the same version number as the parent theme. So I just changed the child theme css version number to 1.0.1 and it worked.