Title: Changing navigation text colour
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Changing navigation text colour

 *  Resolved [Eelik](https://wordpress.org/support/users/eelik/)
 * (@eelik)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-navigation-text-colour/)
 * Hi Alexander,
    I have lightened the background colour of the header, and now 
   need either to make the header navigation bar, (not top nav), have a darker background,
   or else darken the colour of the navigation text. I have tried copying css from
   the style sheet into custom.css, but this has not worked, maybe something is 
   overriding the defaults, or I have copied the wrong code. Could you help. Thanks
   Eric

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 *  [Alexander Agnarson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alxmedia/)
 * (@alxmedia)
 * [12 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-navigation-text-colour/#post-4346558)
 * Try adding this to your custom css:
 * For darker background:
 *     ```
       #nav-header.nav-container,
       #nav-header .nav ul { background-color: #222!important; }
       ```
   
 * You may not need the !important there, not sure.
 * Or to recolor the nav links,
 *     ```
       #nav-header .nav li a { color: #666; }
       #nav-header .nav li > a:hover,
       #nav-header .nav li:hover > a,
       #nav-header .nav li.current_page_item > a,
       #nav-header .nav li.current-menu-item > a,
       #nav-header .nav li.current-menu-ancestor > a,
       #nav-header .nav li.current-post-parent > a { color: #222; }
       ```
   
 *  [dogsinthecle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dogsinthecle/)
 * (@dogsinthecle)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/changing-navigation-text-colour/#post-4346861)
 * Thanks, this was helpful to fix my issue with the “home” on the menu header disappearing,
   but how do I change the “post comment” button color so that it’s visible? [http://dogsinthecle.com/?p=272](http://dogsinthecle.com/?p=272)

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