Title: Menu background becoming transparent while hovering
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Menu background becoming transparent while hovering

 *  [seriousart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seriousart/)
 * (@seriousart)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-becoming-transparent-while-hovering/)
 * Trying to figure out what I can do to fix this annoying issue. While hovering
   over the menu items, the background bar becomes transparent behind the selected
   item.
    I’ve tried to fix it using all the customize tools built in and I’ve used
   firebug to try to figure out where it is in the code, but evidently I’m not bright
   enough to fix it. Can anyone help a wordpress newbie? Thanks!
 * Fowllanguagecomics.com

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 *  [bemdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemdesign/)
 * (@bemdesign)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-becoming-transparent-while-hovering/#post-4156484)
 * .menu ul li a:hover, .menu ul li a.selected{
    background-color: #DBE8D4; }
 * Take out background-color and see what happens 🙂
 * (This css appears to be applied directly to the page as opposed to within a stylesheet–
   I’m not sure what’s generating it.)
 *  Thread Starter [seriousart](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seriousart/)
 * (@seriousart)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-becoming-transparent-while-hovering/#post-4156488)
 * Thanks, bemdesign! Even if I do feel like a numbskull for missing that…
 * Follow-up numbskull question: I tried to leave the box blank, but it’s defaulting
   to a dark gray. Can I just not have a box at all?
 *  [bemdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemdesign/)
 * (@bemdesign)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-becoming-transparent-while-hovering/#post-4156569)
 * You can put in
 * background: none;
 * in place of background-color and remove all background styling from the element
   but how would a user tell which section they are visiting or which link they 
   are hovering over?

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 * [menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu/)
 * [navigation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/navigation/)
 * [transparent](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/transparent/)

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 * Last reply from: [bemdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bemdesign/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/menu-background-becoming-transparent-while-hovering/#post-4156569)
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