[ Responsive ] Changing the sidebar button color

inurashii

Hi again,

Still learning the CSS basics, I ran into some trouble regarding the sidebar buttons in Responsive. I'm trying to do a custom color scheme, and it's MOSTLY worked, but for one thing: I can't get the sidebar buttons to stop displaying slate-grey.

The current code I'm trying to use is:

#sidebar li { background-color: #a66f00; }

I tried marking it as important, but the buttons remain grey as ever. Any thoughts?

greyelf

You were close, the button background colour is actually set on the anchor ('a') tag.

Try this instead:

#sidebar li a { background-color: red; }

Using a browser's debugger is an excellent way to determine what CSS is effecting which HTML tags.

inurashii

I'm really confused. I tried using the code you suggested, which only changed the background of the 'bookmark' text and not the button.

Then I reverted back to my original code and now it works?????

I'm just going to pretend the problem got for-real solved rather than magically disappeared. Thanks for your help!