I have the following HTML:
how about
.main-nav-item:hover
this keeps the specificity low
try this
.div
{
text-decoration:none;
font-size:16;
display:block;
padding:14px;
}
.div a:hover
{
background-color:#080808;
color:white;
}
lets say we have a anchor tag used in our code and class"div" is called in the main program. the a:hover will do the thing, it will give a vampire black color to the background and white color to the text when the mouse is moved over it that's what hover means.
Cascading is biting you. Try this:
.menu > .main-nav-item:hover
{
color:#DDD;
}
This code says to grab all the links that have a class of main-nav-item AND are children of the class menu, and apply the color #DDD when they are hovered.
Try this:
.menu a.main-nav-item:hover { }
In order to understand how this works it is important to read this the way the browser does. The a
defines the element, the .main-nav-item
qualifies the element to only those which have that class, and finally the psuedo-class :hover
is applied to the qualified expression that comes before.
Basically it boils down to this:
Apply this hover rule to all anchor elements with the class
main-nav-item
that are a descendant child of any element with the classmenu
.
Set a:hover based on class you can simply try:
a.main-nav-item:hover { }
One common error is leaving a space before the class names. Even if this was the correct syntax:
.menu a:hover .main-nav-item
it never would have worked.
Therefore, you would not write
.menu a .main-nav-item:hover
it would be
.menu a.main-nav-item:hover