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CSS

Shreyas Sreenivasa
Shreyas Sreenivasa
7,804 Points
Posted by Shreyas Sreenivasa
Shreyas Sreenivasa
7,804 Points

a:hover is not working

Hey there! I'm building a website but for some reason my a:hover is not working.

Code which is not working:

    .dropdown-content-1 a:hover, .dropdown-content-2 a:hover {
        text-decoration: underline;
        background-color: #008080;
        color: #999;
    }

My complete code on JSFiddle: https://jsfiddle.net/fgkn9abc/

Thank you in advance!

2 Answers

Billy Bellchambers
Billy Bellchambers
21,689 Points
Billy Bellchambers
Billy Bellchambers
21,689 Points

I think your use of !important is what is causing the problems your stating as its overriding later css code for your anchor elements.

I think the problem is here

 .dropdown-content a:hover {
      color: #3d72a4 !important;
    }

Hope this helps

Billy Bellchambers
Billy Bellchambers
21,689 Points
Billy Bellchambers
Billy Bellchambers
21,689 Points

Seems to be working fine to me.

Did you re-run the page?

See here

Shreyas Sreenivasa
Shreyas Sreenivasa
7,804 Points
Shreyas Sreenivasa
Shreyas Sreenivasa
7,804 Points

Billy Bellchambers it works but the color of the text doesn't change.