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  • Resolved tbbinaustin

    (@tbbinaustin)


    I am a novice and building a site using the Redux theme. I am able to set menu item font color attribute (#000000) as desired, but on a hover the background is black. How and where do I set the hover background in style.css to what I want? I am not knowledgeable with css, but can at least find my way around in the file. Help would be very much appreciated.

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  • Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Have you asked your theme’s vendors?

    Thread Starter tbbinaustin

    (@tbbinaustin)

    Thanks for the reply Andrew. I have not asked the theme’s vendor. Don’t know if this helps, but here is all the code associated with the menu from the theme’s style.css

    /*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
    /*	4.	Navigation & Menus
    /*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------------*/
    
    #primary-nav {
    	height: 30px;
    	margin-bottom: 40px;
    	float: right;
    	margin-right: -10px;
    }
    
    #primary-nav ul {
    	margin: 0;
    	padding: 0;
    	list-style: none;
    }
    
    #primary-nav ul a {
    	padding: 0 0 0 10px;
        color: #f1eee5;
        font-weight: bold;
        float: left;
        font-size: 13px;
        text-shadow: 0px 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
    }
    
    #primary-nav ul li {
    	position: relative;
    	z-index: 40;
    	float: left;
        margin: 0 0 0 10px;
    }
    
    #primary-nav ul li:hover { visibility: inherit; /* fixes IE7 'sticky bug' */ }
    
    #primary-nav ul ul li { width: 100%; }
    
    #primary-nav ul a:hover,
    #primary-nav ul li.sfHover a,
    #primary-nav ul li.current-cat a,
    #primary-nav ul li.current_page_item a,
    #primary-nav ul li.current-menu-item a {
        background: url(images/sprite.png) 10px 60px; /* Left image */
    	text-decoration: none;
    }
    
    #primary-nav ul a:hover span,
    #primary-nav ul li.sfHover a span,
    #primary-nav ul li.current-cat a span,
    #primary-nav ul li.current_page_item a span,
    #primary-nav ul li.current-menu-item a span {
        background: url(images/sprite.png) 100% 30px; /* Right image */
    }
    
    #primary-nav ul li.sfHover li a,
    #primary-nav ul li.sfHover li a span{
    	 background: none;
    }
    
    #primary-nav li li a:hover,
    #primary-nav li.sfHover li a { background: none }
    
    #primary-nav li a span {
        display: block;
        padding: 5px 10px 5px 0;
        float: left;
        cursor: pointer;
    }
    
    #primary-nav li li a span { padding: 0 }
    
    .sf-sub-indicator { text-indent: -9999px; }
    
    #primary-nav li a span.sf-sub-indicator {
        background: url(images/sprite.png) 29px 120px;
        width: 29px;
        height: 30px;
        float: left;
        margin: 0 0 0 -7px;
        padding: 0;
    }
    
    .ie #primary-nav li a span.sf-sub-indicator { height: 28px; }
    
    #primary-nav ul a:hover span.sf-sub-indicator,
    #primary-nav ul li.sfHover a span.sf-sub-indicator,
    #primary-nav ul li.current-cat a span.sf-sub-indicator,
    #primary-nav ul li.current_page_item a span.sf-sub-indicator,
    #primary-nav ul li.current-menu-item a span.sf-sub-indicator {
    	background: url(images/sprite.png) 29px 90px
    }
    
    .ie #primary-nav ul a:hover span.sf-sub-indicator,
    .ie #primary-nav ul li.sfHover a span.sf-sub-indicator,
    .ie #primary-nav ul li.current-cat a span.sf-sub-indicator,
    .ie #primary-nav ul li.current_page_item a span.sf-sub-indicator,
    .ie #primary-nav ul li.current-menu-item a span.sf-sub-indicator {
        height: 29px;
    }
    
    #primary-nav li .sub-menu li a span.sf-sub-indicator,
    #primary-nav li.sfHover .sub-menu li a span.sf-sub-indicator { height: 12px; }
    
    #primary-nav li li a span.sf-sub-indicator,
    #primary-nav li.sfHover li a span.sf-sub-indicator {
        background: url(images/sprite.png) 37px 84px;
        height: 12px;
        margin: 5px 0 0 0;
        width: 10px;
        float: right;
    }
    
    #primary-nav li.sfHover li.sfHover li a span.sf-sub-indicator { background: url(images/sprite.png) 37px 84px }
    
    #primary-nav li li.sfHover a span.sf-sub-indicator,
    #primary-nav li li.sfHover li.sfHover a span.sf-sub-indicator { background: url(images/sprite.png) 37px 72px }
    
    /*  Make sub menus appear */
    #primary-nav ul li:hover ul,
    #primary-nav ul li.sfHover ul {
    	left: -1px;
    	top: 36px; /* match top ul list item height */
    	z-index: 99;
    }
    
    /* Hide all subs subs (4 levels deep) */
    #primary-nav ul li:hover li ul,
    #primary-nav ul li.sfHover li ul,
    #primary-nav ul li li:hover li ul,
    #primary-nav ul li li.sfHover li ul,
    #primary-nav ul li li li:hover li ul,
    #primary-nav ul li li li.sfHover li ul { top: -9999em; }
    
    /* Displays all subs subs (4 levels deep) */
    #primary-nav ul li li:hover ul,
    #primary-nav ul li li.sfHover ul,
    #primary-nav ul li li li:hover ul,
    #primary-nav ul li li li.sfHover ul,
    #primary-nav ul li li li li:hover ul,
    #primary-nav ul li li li li.sfHover ul {
    	left: 180px; /* match .nav ul width */
    	top: -1px;
    }
    
    /* 2nd level skin */
    #primary-nav ul ul {
    	position: absolute;
    	top: -9999em;
    	width: 180px; /* left offset of submenus need to match (see below) */
    	background: url(images/nav_dropdown_bg.gif) repeat;
        padding: 15px 5px 15px 5px;
        margin: 3px 0 0 0;
        -webkit-box-shadow: 0px 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
        -moz-box-shadow: 0px 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
        box-shadow: 0px 1px 1px rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.5);
        -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
        -moz-border-radius: 3px;
        border-radius: 3px;
    }
    
    #primary-nav ul ul li {
    	float: left;
    	width: 150px;
    	background: none;
    	border-bottom: 1px solid #0f0f0f;
        border-top: 1px solid #262626;
    	padding: 0 5px 0 5px;
    }
    
    #primary-nav ul ul li:first-child  { border-top: none }
    
    #primary-nav ul ul li:last-child { border-bottom: none }
    
    #primary-nav ul ul li a {
    	font-size: 12px;
    	font-weight: normal;
    	padding: 5px 0 5px 0;
    	width: 150px;
    }
    
    #primary-nav ul li a,
    #primary-nav ul li a span,
    { background: none }
    Andrew Nevins

    (@anevins)

    WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support

    Looks like you just override the background:

    #primary-nav ul a:hover,
    #primary-nav ul a:hover span {
     background: none;
     background: deeppink;
    }

    Thread Starter tbbinaustin

    (@tbbinaustin)

    Andrew – That did the it. Thanks for the help.

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