Title: Hover text color
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Hover text color

 *  Resolved [Alexv15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexv15/)
 * (@alexv15)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hover-text-color/)
 * I need help changing the color of the menu items when hovering over them. All
   my changes have been using the custom css so I’m looking for css I can add here.
 * This is my first time building a site so I appreciate any help I can get.
 * Site
    [http://franciskatlego.com/](http://franciskatlego.com/)

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 *  [Thimothe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wcube/)
 * (@wcube)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hover-text-color/#post-4266319)
 * Are you looking to change the text color on hover ? If so, the rule would be
   .
   nav .menu-item a { color:YourColor; }
 * If you’re talking about the background color, use this:
 * .nav .menu-item {
    background-color:YourColor; }
 * Hope this helps.
 *  Thread Starter [Alexv15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexv15/)
 * (@alexv15)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hover-text-color/#post-4266327)
 * Thanks Thimothe. I tried the code below but that still did not change the text
   color on hover. If you take a look at the site I’m building you will notice that
   the page the user is currently on blacks out, or on hover blacks out.
 * .nav .menu-item a {
    color: yellow; }
 *  Thread Starter [Alexv15](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alexv15/)
 * (@alexv15)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hover-text-color/#post-4266365)
 * Thimothe after some trial and error this worked for me. Thanks for your help.
 * .navbar .nav > li > a:hover {
    color: #e9a825; }
 *  [Thimothe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wcube/)
 * (@wcube)
 * [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hover-text-color/#post-4266387)
 * You’re welcome. I’m glad it helped and sorry about the missing :hover, I guess
   I was too tired.

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 * Last reply from: [Thimothe](https://wordpress.org/support/users/wcube/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hover-text-color/#post-4266387)
 * Status: resolved