how to change background color of navigation tabs

Question

<div class="navbar-header">
  <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#myNavbar"></button>
   <span class="icon-bar"></span>
  <span class="icon-bar"></span>
  <span class="icon-bar"></span>                        
  <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Portfolio</a>
</div>
<div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="myNavbar">
  <ul class="nav navbar-nav">
    <li class="active"><a href="#">Home</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Gallery</a></li>
    <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
  </ul>
</div>

Here is my code. How can I change the tab color when a user hovers over a tab? I want the color to be green.

score 0 · Accepted Answer · answered Jan 06 '17 at 18:42

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.navbar-nav li:hover{
  background-color: green;
}

Will target only the <li> tags within the .navbar-nav class. :hover is a pseudo selector.

http://www.w3schools.com/Css/css_pseudo_classes.asp

answered Jan 06 '17 at 18:42

thanks a lot! it worked! – pandacoder Jan 06 '17 at 19:24
im sorry im super new here on stackoverflow. how do you "accept" answers? nvm i got it. – pandacoder Jan 06 '17 at 20:27

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 06 '17 at 18:43

0

CSS:

selector:hover { 
 background: color;
}

answered Jan 06 '17 at 18:43

Kiogara

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how to change background color of navigation tabs

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