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1. color: White!important; } That is causing the link text to be white. I'd avoid using '!important' - it tends to cause issues like this. On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 3:51 PM, Angela French <afre...@sbctc.edu> wrote: > Hello, > I've got a dropdown menu where the text for the menu items is supposed to > be a dark gray but is coming up white on a white background. I can't find > what is making the color declaration not work. I'd be grateful for any > assistance. > > The site is here: http://168.156.9.250/WELA/ > > The issue is found on the drop down menus (for example, under About WELA). > > Below is the css for that element. I can make other tweeks such as > changing the padding and the effect is immediately seen, but I can't get > that color to behave. The ONLY way I could get it black was to put the > style inline on the <li> like this: <li ><a href="test.htm" > style="color:Black!important;">Academy Overview</a></li> > > > .dropdown-menu > li > a { > display: block; > padding: 3px 20px; > clear: both; > font-weight: normal; > line-height: 20px; > color: #333333!important; > white-space: nowrap; > } > > > It is located in the bootstrap.css file at line 4820. You can see from my > declaration, that using !important didn't get it to work. I don't find > anything in the cascade of style sheets that overwrites it, not is there > anything inline. > > Thank you for any assistance. > > > Angela French > Internet Specialist > State Board for Community and Technical Colleges > 360-704-4316 > afre...@sbctc.edu > http://www.checkoutacollege.com/ > > ______________________________________________________________________ > css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] > http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d > List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ > List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html > Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/ > ______________________________________________________________________ css-discuss [css-d@lists.css-discuss.org] http://www.css-discuss.org/mailman/listinfo/css-d List wiki/FAQ -- http://css-discuss.incutio.com/ List policies -- http://css-discuss.org/policies.html Supported by evolt.org -- http://www.evolt.org/help_support_evolt/