Title: Hyperlink hover color
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Hyperlink hover color

 *  Resolved [Akernet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akernet/)
 * (@akernet)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-hover-color/)
 * Hello,
 * I’ve been looking for a way to fix this for waaay too long now and can’t seem
   to get it to work. My website: [http://www.mimersgard.se/](http://www.mimersgard.se/),
   see [http://www.mimersgard.se/aktuellt/](http://www.mimersgard.se/aktuellt/) 
   as reference.
 * I want to color a hyperlink as you hover over it. I’ve used the following code
   in Custom CSS:
 * a:link {color:#AA6D4D;}
    a:visited {color:#AA6D4D;} a:hover {color:#DFDAA9;}
 * But these only seem to change 3/4 of the links. All links in the sidebar, along
   with all other general links (the ones automatically generated by the website
   and widgets), seem to change color. The ones that I personally and manually add
   don’t change color when hovered over. They stay the same orange color and I can’t
   seem to find how to “crack the code”, so to speak. I want them to change from
   the bronze color specified in the code to the yellow/beige one.
 * Can anyone give some hints or tips, perhaps?
 * Many thanks,
    Erik

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-hover-color/#post-4426237)
 * Try using Firefox with the [Firebug add-on](http://getfirebug.com/) for this 
   kind of CSS troubleshooting. Or use whatever developer tool is available in your
   web browser.
 *  Thread Starter [Akernet](https://wordpress.org/support/users/akernet/)
 * (@akernet)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-hover-color/#post-4426245)
 * Thanks a lot!
 * That push was all I needed. I downloaded a developer tool, viewed the CSS from
   there and was able to identify two strings of text that had that orange color
   to them:
 * .entry-content a:hover {
    color: #f47e3c; }
 * and
 * a:hover,
    a:focus, a:active { color: #f47e3c; }
 * After they were changed, it worked!
 * Thanks for the tip 🙂
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-hover-color/#post-4426246)
 * No problem 🙂

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 * [hyperlink](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hyperlink/)

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 * 3 replies
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 * Last reply from: [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hyperlink-hover-color/#post-4426246)
 * Status: resolved

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