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Current/Active page link won't reflect style


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Old Nov 22, 2013, 12:38 PM
striped aardvark
 
50 posts · Mar 2010
dundas, ontario, canada
Current/Active page link won't reflect style

http://specializednde.com/ is the site i'm working on. i've used just standard links (h4) in a widget for the top menu, as the menu needed to be bottom aligned with the logo beside it, and this seemed the easiest solution. i've styled the links as follows, but for some reason the active link will not stay background-coloured. is it being affected in some way by the default widget stylings maybe?


h4 a:link {color:#0065B3; background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: 5px; !important;} /* unvisited link */
h4 a:visited {color:#FFFFFF; background-color: #FFFFFF; padding: 5px; !important;} /* visited link */
h4 a:hover {color:#FFFFFF; background-color: #BECFE1; padding: 5px; !important;} /* hover link */
h4 a:active {color:#FFFFFF; background-color: #BECFE1; padding: 5px; !important;} /* selected link */

or is there some way to use the logo option in atahualpa and still have the regular menu align across from it, as the site currently looks?

many thanks for any input!

joan
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Old Nov 22, 2013, 01:41 PM
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juggledad
 
23,765 posts · Mar 2009
OSX 10.11.5 WP 4.x Atahualpa(all) Safari, Firefox, Chrome
once you 'click' the link, you are sent to a new page and that link stops being active. what you need to do is target a class assigned to it.

When using the wp custom menus or Atahualpa menus, the menu item you clicked on will get a class of 'current-item' (I think that's the class - you need to use FireBug to look at it or view the page source.) and you can target that in your CSS.
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Old Nov 24, 2013, 07:47 PM
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lmilesw
 
10,176 posts · Jul 2009
Central New York State USA
Also "active" in CSS referts to the element when it is clicked on. Once you realease the mouse button the state for the link is no longer active.
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