ASP.Net MVC Controlling the tab bar

Question

I create a new asp.net MVC project and began modifying it to my needs. I am having a problem controlling the colors of the tab bar. I added these changes to the site.css file

 .navbar-inverse 
{ background-color: lightblue !important;


}
.nav.navbar-nav li a {
   color: black !important;
   font-weight: bold !important;

 }

The first section changed the background color like I wanted. The second part changed the text color except for the first tab, the one that comes before the home tab. Also for the tabs that did change I lost the hover color. They used to turn white when I hovered over them. That only works now for the first tab.

I want to change the color of the first tab and also restore the hover color change for all tabs.

See attached image.

Answer 1

The problem is that you are using the !important flag.

I recommend that you create your own custom class, something like .navbar-custom .

Change:

<nav class="navbar navbar-inverse">

To:

<nav class="navbar navbar-custom">

---

Here's an example to point you in the right direction:

 /*Navbar styles*/ .navbar-custom { background-color: lightblue; } /*Navbar brand styles*/ .navbar-custom .navbar-brand { color: black; } /*Navbar brand hover styles*/ .navbar-custom .navbar-brand:hover, .navbar-custom .navbar-brand:focus { color: blue; } /*Navbar anchor styles*/ .navbar-custom .nav.navbar-nav li a { color: black; font-weight: bold; } /*Navbar anchor hover styles*/ .navbar-custom .nav>li>a:focus, .navbar-custom .nav>li>a:hover { background-color: #eee; } /* Mobile navbar toggle styles*/ .navbar-custom .navbar-toggle { border-color: #333; } .navbar-custom .navbar-toggle .icon-bar { background-color: #333; } 

 <script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/2.1.1/jquery.min.js"></script> <script src="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"></script> <link href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" rel="stylesheet" /> <nav class="navbar navbar-custom"> <div class="container-fluid"> <!-- Brand and toggle get grouped for better mobile display --> <div class="navbar-header"> <button type="button" class="navbar-toggle collapsed" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-example-navbar-collapse-1" aria-expanded="false"> <span class="sr-only">Toggle navigation</span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> <span class="icon-bar"></span> </button> <a class="navbar-brand" href="#">Brand</a> </div> <!-- Collect the nav links, forms, and other content for toggling --> <div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-example-navbar-collapse-1"> <ul class="nav navbar-nav"> <li class="active"><a href="#">Link <span class="sr-only">(current)</span></a> </li> <li><a href="#">Link</a> </li> <li class="dropdown"> <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">Dropdown <span class="caret"></span></a> <ul class="dropdown-menu"> <li><a href="#">Action</a> </li> <li><a href="#">Another action</a> </li> <li><a href="#">Something else here</a> </li> <li role="separator" class="divider"></li> <li><a href="#">Separated link</a> </li> <li role="separator" class="divider"></li> <li><a href="#">One more separated link</a> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> <form class="navbar-form navbar-left"> <div class="form-group"> <input type="text" class="form-control" placeholder="Search"> </div> <button type="submit" class="btn btn-default">Submit</button> </form> <ul class="nav navbar-nav navbar-right"> <li><a href="#">Link</a> </li> <li class="dropdown"> <a href="#" class="dropdown-toggle" data-toggle="dropdown" role="button" aria-haspopup="true" aria-expanded="false">Dropdown <span class="caret"></span></a> <ul class="dropdown-menu"> <li><a href="#">Action</a> </li> <li><a href="#">Another action</a> </li> <li><a href="#">Something else here</a> </li> <li role="separator" class="divider"></li> <li><a href="#">Separated link</a> </li> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> <!-- /.navbar-collapse --> </div> <!-- /.container-fluid --> </nav>