Title: background colour drop down menu
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# background colour drop down menu

 *  [wackynation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wackynation/)
 * (@wackynation)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-drop-down-menu/)
 * I am a total novice, but managed to create child pages and put them onto my main
   menu bar following other forum posts. Unfortunately they come up with a white
   background and grey writing which means they can barely be seen.
 * I looked at other forums and tried to change the code color but nothing happened.
   How do I change the background colour and text in the drop down menu so that 
   they stand out and can be seen.
 * Here is the website [http://www.wackynation.com](http://www.wackynation.com) 
   and the event management is where the drop down bar is.
 * Please keep the response very basic as I am new to this and the site was originally
   put together by someone else, so I am learning to add to it.
 * Thanks

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 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-drop-down-menu/#post-2860502)
 * Try this:
    Find the following in your style.css
 *     ```
       #secondary-nav a {
           border-bottom: medium none;
           color: #222222;
           font: 11px/21px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
           margin: 0;
           padding: 2px 3px;
       }
       ```
   
 * Replace the above with
 *     ```
       #secondary-nav a {
           border-bottom: medium none;
           color: #3333ff;
           font: 11px/21px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
           margin: 0;
           padding: 2px 3px;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [wackynation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wackynation/)
 * (@wackynation)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-drop-down-menu/#post-2860660)
 * Thanks I gave this a try and waited a whole day just in case but if you look 
   nothing has changed it has stayed exactly the same.
 * Any other ideas would be welcome because whatever I do nothing seems to change
   on the webpage.
 *  [Krishna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/1nexus/)
 * (@1nexus)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-drop-down-menu/#post-2860662)
 * Try this:
 *     ```
       #secondary-nav a {
           border-bottom: medium none;
           color: #555555;
           font: 11px 'Helvetica Neue',Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;
           margin: 0;
           padding: 2px 3px;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [wackynation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wackynation/)
 * (@wackynation)
 * [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-drop-down-menu/#post-2860704)
 * Thanks Krishna for trying to help me, but even with this it has stayed exactly
   the same.
 * The site doesn’t seem to be responding to the changes even though it is saving
   them.

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## Tags

 * [child pages](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/child-pages/)
 * [drop down menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/drop-down-menu/)

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 * 4 replies
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 * Last reply from: [wackynation](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wackynation/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/background-colour-drop-down-menu/#post-2860704)
 * Status: not resolved

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