I cannot get my Wordpress menu active links to remain red.
I\'ve added the CSS I think is relevant to the navigation of, but also the body, etc, in case that is impactin
Active is only used while a user is clicking on an element, it's not meant to indicate which page is active. You should add a class to the active navigation item and style that class.
source: http://css-tricks.com/almanac/selectors/a/active/
it doesn't work like that, you need to set active class or id with serverside language or with js, then you can indicate active page.