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HTML How to Make a Website Customizing Colors and Fonts Write Hexadecimal Colors

Posted by tejaswini vadnal
tejaswini vadnal
1,587 Points

why hover is not working

a { text-decoration: none; }

wrapper

{ max-width: 940px; margin: 0 auto; padding: 0 5%; }

logo

{ text-align:center; margin: 0; } a { color: #6ab47b; }

header { background: #6ab47b; border-color: #599a68; }

h1,h2 { color: #fff; }

nav { background: #599a68; }

nav a,nav a:visited { color:#fff; }

nav a.selected,nav a:hover { color:32673f; }

body { background-color:#fff; color:#999; }

index.html

<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title> Tejaswini Vadnal</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/normalize.css"> <link rel="stylesheet" href="css/main.css">

</head> <body> <header>

  <a href="index.html" id="logo">
    <h1>tejaswini</h1>
    <h2>Designer</h2>
    </a>
  <nav>
  <ul>
      <li><a href="index.html" class="selected">Portfolio</a></li>
      <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li>
      <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li>


    </ul>
  </nav>


</header>
<div id="wrapper">
<section>
  <ul>
    <li>
      <a href="img/numbers-01.jpg">
      <img src="img/numbers-01.jpg" alt="">
      <p>Before you speak -Listen </p>
      </a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a href="img/numbers-02.jpg">
      <img src="img/numbers-02.jpg" alt="">
      <p>Before you spend -Earn </p>
      </a>
    </li>
    <li>
      <a href="img/numbers-06.jpg">
      <img src="img/numbers-06.jpg" alt="">
      <p>Before you pray -Believe</p>
      </a>
    </li>

   <li>
      <a href="img/numbers-09.jpg">
      <img src="img/numbers-09.jpg" alt="">
      <p>Before you write -Think</p>
      </a>
    </li> 

    <li>
      <a href="img/numbers-12.jpg">
      <img src="img/numbers-12.jpg" alt="">
      <p>Before you Quit -Try</p>
      </a>
    </li>

    </ul>
<p> Gallery </p>
</section>
<footer>
  <a href="http://facebook.com/tejaswini vadnal"><img src="img/facebook-wrap.png" alt="facebook logo"></a>
<p>&copy; 2106 Tejaswini Vadnal</p>
</footer>
</div>

</body> </html>

2 Answers

Saleh '
Saleh '
24,986 Points
Saleh '
Saleh '
24,986 Points

looks like your using a wrong value for the color, try to change it to anything and it will works, here you might need this:

nav a.selected,nav a:hover { color: blue; }
tejaswini vadnal
tejaswini vadnal
1,587 Points
tejaswini vadnal
tejaswini vadnal
1,587 Points

thank you saleh