Title: Sprite Menu Hover Issues
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Sprite Menu Hover Issues

 *  [C47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/c47/)
 * (@c47)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sprite-menu-hover-issues/)
 * I’m trying to use an image sprite for social media links in the wordpress menu.
   Site: [http://guardiangirls.com/](http://guardiangirls.com/)
 * I can’t seem to override the menu’s hover background image. Instead of showing
   the hover sprite image, it just shows the default gradient background that is
   standard for the text links.
 * Any ideas? Thanks.

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 *  [Michael](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alchymyth/)
 * (@alchymyth)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sprite-menu-hover-issues/#post-2413137)
 * you have styled the menu item with a background
    `#menu-item-403 { ...}` not 
   the link; however, you apply the :hover to the link `#menu-item-403 a:hover {...}`
 *  Thread Starter [C47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/c47/)
 * (@c47)
 * [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sprite-menu-hover-issues/#post-2413182)
 * When I styled the menu item’s link, (#-menu-item-403 a {}) I was getting formatting
   issues. Like it was still including some of the styling for the default menu 
   styling tag #access.
 * I have a:hover because I don’t know how else I would style its hover state without
   referring to the link. But I can’t seem to override #access on just those items.
   I’d want to keep the rest of the menu the same.

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## Tags

 * [css](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/css/)
 * [hover](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/hover/)
 * [menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu/)
 * [navigation](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/navigation/)

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 * Last reply from: [C47](https://wordpress.org/support/users/c47/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sprite-menu-hover-issues/#post-2413182)
 * Status: not resolved

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