I want to change the color for each of the items of the top nav here on the active state:
For example, on the given page, and the category pages associated with this, I would like the header nav named "Thought Piece" to be purple when the user is on that page.
Currently I have:
builder-module-navigation li a,
.builder-module-navigation li.current_page_item li a,
.builder-module-navigation li.current-cat li a {
font-size: 12px;
padding: 0.2em .7em;
line-height: 1.5em;
color: #666;
font-family:Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
text-decoration: none;
background: transparent;
text-transform:uppercase;
}
I thought this would do the trick, but it's not:
.builder-module-navigation li.current_page_item #menu-item-78 li a,
.builder-module-navigation li.current-cat #menu-item-78 li a {
color:#9900cc;
}
How do I target the specific classes correctly?
If you use the built in Menus module it will add a class of current to the correct link automatically.
Learn how to use custom menus here.
You need to use a bit of PHP to do it as described in the WordPress Codex.
The relevant function is
is_page()
to determine which page you are on and some simple PHP logic to write a dynamic CSS attribute into the HTML.Easier to use
<body <?php body_class(); ?>>
to find the current page and your CSS. See http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/body_class and Wordpress wp_nav_menu help