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CSS

Posted by Collin Retkowski
Collin Retkowski
6,542 Points

Bootstrap navbar Hover CSS

So i am making a navbar in Bootstrap but when i changed the text color to white it removed the hover color. I tried to add it through CSS but something is not working. Here is the code.

    <style>

ul li a:hover {
  color:grey;
}


    </style>
  </head>
  <body>

    <!-- Navigation -->
      <ul class="nav justify-content-center navbar-dark bg-dark">
        <li class="nav-item">
          <a class="nav-link text-white" href="#">Home</a>
        </li>
        <li class="nav-item">
          <a class="nav-link text-white" href="#">Things To Do</a>
        </li>
        <li class="nav-item">
          <a class="nav-link text-white" href="#">Map</a>
        </li>
        <li class="nav-item">
          <a class="nav-link text-white" href="#">Contacts</a>
        </li>
      </ul>
    <!-- /Navigation -->
Alex Davis
Alex Davis
35,050 Points

Your CSS is overriding your bootstrap. Try setting it up where your CSS comes first and your BS after that. This it'll make it where your CSS is read first and should be applied first.

Also do you have a separate page for your CSS? You should avoid using style tags and modify in CSS. It has a lot more flexibility.

1 Answer

Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points
Steven Parker
Steven Parker
243,318 Points

What Alex is suggesting is a bit unconventional. The recommended practice is for custom CSS to override Bootstrap, as you are doing. The trick is to only do things in your custom CSS that can't be done the "Boostrap way", and to avoid doing things that have side effects on the Bootstrap.

Anyway, the issue here is that the Bootstrap class adds the white color in a way that can't be overridden as easily as the default color can. But you can compensate like this:

  color:grey !important;