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 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Custom CSS Menu Color](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-menu-color/)
 *  Thread Starter [bknp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bknp/)
 * (@bknp)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-menu-color/#post-2021730)
 * After more trial and error, I got it to work on a different menu item using this…
 *     ```
       #menu #menu_item_27 a {
       color: #3C6;
       }
       ```
   
 * Hope this isn’t a backwards way of doing it.
 * Thanks for your help futurepocket!
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Custom CSS Menu Color](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-menu-color/)
 *  Thread Starter [bknp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bknp/)
 * (@bknp)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-menu-color/#post-2021715)
 * Thanks for the response.
 * When I inserted…
 *     ```
       .menu_item_11 {
       color: #FF0;
       }
       ```
   
 * it appeared to do nothing, but when I changed it to…
 *     ```
       #menu_item_11 a {
       color: #FF0;
       }
       ```
   
 * it shows in firebug, but it’s being overridden by…
 *     ```
       #menu li a {
       color:#999999;
       }
       ```
   
 * Any ideas?
 *   Forum: [Themes and Templates](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/themes-and-templates/)
   
   In reply to: [Custom CSS Menu Color](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-menu-color/)
 *  Thread Starter [bknp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bknp/)
 * (@bknp)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-css-menu-color/#post-2021699)
 * OK,
    I got it to work using the following code:
 *     ```
       #dropmenu li.menu-item-60 a {
       	color: #993;
       }
       ```
   
 * BUT, now when I try to use a similar approach on [this site](http://shelterbowl.com),
   it doesn’t work.
 * Here, I’m trying to change the color of the “Contact” menu item. I tried using
   similar code as above…
 *     ```
       #menu li.menu_item_11 a {
       	color: #FF0;
       }
       ```
   
 * I think maybe because the menu item ID has underscores, but when I try to alter
   the code in firebug, I notice that the underscores disappear, and instead the
   ID has spaces??
 * Kinda confused.
 * Any insight is appreciated. Thanks again!

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