Off course- it should be a:active!
what a silly mistake to make.

However,
both
#block-uc_catalog-0 a:active {
and
#block-uc_catalog-0 li a:active

won't show the background whilst #block-uc_catalog-0 a:hover {
works.



On 15-7-2010 15:15, Climis, Tim wrote:
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: css-d-boun...@lists.css-discuss.org [mailto:css-d-
>> boun...@lists.css-discuss.org] On Behalf Of Tim Arnold
>> Sent: Thursday, July 15, 2010 8:51 AM
>> To: Thijs Hakkenberg
>> Cc:<css-d@lists.css-discuss.org>
>> Subject: Re: [css-d] background color of a with class
>>
>> On Jul 15, 2010, at 7:37 AM, Thijs Hakkenberg
>> <th...@hakkenberg.com>  wrote:
>>
>>> Dear List,
>>>
>>> I made an menu based on ul's and li's
>> (http://winkel.varkensinnood.nl)
>>> with an a:hover turning the a element white.
>>>
>>> However, when clicked the<a>  element turns into<a
>> class="active">.
>>> I want to change the background color and should work with the
>>> following
>>> css:
>>>
>>> #block-uc_catalog-0 a .active {
>>>     background: #fff;
>>> }
>>>
>>> (it's embedded in a DIV).
>>>
>>> but this doesn't work. However,
>>>
>>> #block-uc_catalog-0 a:hover {
>>>     background: #fff;
>>>     }
>>>
>>> works.
>>>
>>> What am I missing?
>>>
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>> If you copy/pasted into you message, the problem is that there is a
>> space between "a" and ".active". It should be "a.active" not "a .active"
>>
>> - Tim
>>
> Or, it could be that you mean a:active -- not sure, since we don't hvace code 
> to know if you have an "active" class.
>
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