That rule would then become *extremely* hard to over-ride should the
need arise. IIRC, even an inline style would get trumped by this rule.
On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 9:08 AM, Theophan Dort <theop...@theophan.net> wrote:
> Many thanks!
>
> I tried “.navbar a” and it didn’t work, but it worked when I added
> "!important", so I figured there must be Bootstrap rules that are a lot more
> specific so they’re being used. So I removed the “!important” and tried
> “.navbar ul.navbar-nav li a” and that seemed to work for most of it, and
> “.navbar a.navbar-brand” for the “Brand.” It looks like I have a lot more
> selectors to find and use, but at least now I think I know how to proceed.
>
> Would there be a disadvantage to just using the
>
> .navbar a {
> color:white !important;
> }
> though? Sure would be easy.
>
> Thanks again!
>
> Theophan
>
>
>> On Oct 12, 2015, at 8:43 AM, Ryan Reese <sportsdude.re...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> You need to add the color:#FFF to your anchor rules. It's using #777 from
>> your other styles.
>>
>> On Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 8:19 AM, Theophan Dort <theop...@theophan.net>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> I’m trying to build a very small web site for my church’s capital
>>> campaign, using Bootstrap, and I can’t change the color of the font in the
>>> header. I put a style in the <head> section that changes the background
>>> color fine, but the same selector doesn’t change the font color:
>>>
>>> .navbar {
>>> background-color:#BB2F00;
>>> color:white;
>>> }
>>>
>>> I’m not very good navigating my way through the tools, but when I tried to
>>> see, using Firefox Developer Edition, what was actually going on, it really
>>> looked to me as though the rule that was being followed was indeed that the
>>> color was FFF, but my eye says it’s still the gray that Bootstrap specifies.
>>>
>>> Here’s the test page: http://raisingthecross.org/navColorTest.html
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>> Theophan
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