SVG Color Change on Hover Effect

Question

svg are somewhat tricky. I have some social icons with svg code and when I tried to color change on hover effect, it didn't want to change the color. My svg code looked like this.

<svg aria-hidden="true" width="30px" focusable="false" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg"
  xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" viewBox="0 0 24 24">
  <path class="social-icon contact-icon" d="M19.9,2H4.1C3,2,2,3,2,4.1v15.7C2,21,3,22,4.1,22h6.1v-6.8H7.5V12h2.8V9.6c0-2.8,1.7-4.3,4.2-4.3c1.2,0,2.5,0.2,2.5,0.2v2.7
    h-1.4c-1.4,0-1.8,0.9-1.8,1.7V12h3.1l-0.5,3.2h-2.6V22h6.1c1.2,0,2.1-1,2.1-2.1V4.1C22,3,21,2,19.9,2z" />
</svg>

Answer 1

When you have path inside the svg tag just like me, you need to indicate the path to make it change the color.

So the css that solved my issue was:

svg:hover .social-icon {
       fill: #color
}

Answer 2

 svg:hover{fill: red}

 <svg aria-hidden="true" width="30px" focusable="false" role="img" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" xmlns:xlink="http://www.w3.org/1999/xlink" viewBox="0 0 24 24"> <path class="social-icon contact-icon" d="M19.9,2H4.1C3,2,2,3,2,4.1v15.7C2,21,3,22,4.1,22h6.1v-6.8H7.5V12h2.8V9.6c0-2.8,1.7-4.3,4.2-4.3c1.2,0,2.5,0.2,2.5,0.2v2.7 h-1.4c-1.4,0-1.8,0.9-1.8,1.7V12h3.1l-0.5,3.2h-2.6V22h6.1c1.2,0,2.1-1,2.1-2.1V4.1C22,3,21,2,19.9,2z" /> </svg>