Text Won't Show Up As Black

[Muiter]

I have this CSS (part of):

#topnav ul{margin-left: 140px;padding:0 5px;font-size:15px;color:#3366cc;overflow:hidden;list-style-type: none;}#topnav ul li a{float:left;padding:8px;text-align: left;font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;text-decoration: none;color: #999;}#topnav ul li a:hover{color: black;cursor:pointer;}#topnav ul .current{font-weight:bold;color: black;}

It all works exept one: #topnav ul .current won't show as black. Any ideas?

[eTianbun]

Why? Can you post the HTML?

[dsonesuk]

if the text is within a anchor it will follow this rule

#topnav ul li a{float:left;padding:8px;text-align: left;font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;text-decoration: none;color: #999;}

the

#topnav ul .current{font-weight:bold;color: black;}

will only take effect if the anchor is the element with class current, and is below the previous ruling

[Muiter]

This is the menu:

<div id="topnav">  <ul>   <li <?php if($current == 'index') { echo 'class="current"'; } ?>><a href="index.php">Introductie</a></li>   <li <?php if($current == 'constructie') { echo 'class="current"'; } ?>><a href="constructie.php">Constructiewerk</a></li>   <li <?php if($current == 'snijtechniek') { echo 'class="current"'; } ?>><a href="snijtechniek.php">Snijtechniek</a></li>   <li <?php if($current == 'laadenlossystemen') { echo 'class="current"'; } ?>><a href="laadenlossystemen.php">Laad- en lossystemen</a></li>   <li <?php if($current == 'projecten') { echo 'class="current"'; } ?>><a href="projecten.php">Projecten</a></li>   <li <?php if($current == 'certificering') { echo 'class="current"'; } ?>><a href="certificering.php">Certificering</a></li>   <li <?php if($current == 'contact') { echo 'class="current"'; } ?>><a href="contact.php">Contact</a></li>  </ul></div>

When an menu item is selected the item does show up as bold. For some reason the color is not changed.

[dsonesuk]

because #topnav ul .current{font-weight:bold;color: black;} will change all text in li with class 'current' to bold and and color black, but #topnav ul li a{ float:left;padding:8px;text-align: left;font-family: Tahoma, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;font-size: 15px;text-decoration: none;color: #999;} change the text color to #999 as it will overide the color set for li it should be

#topnav ul .current a{font-weight:bold;color: black;} 

[Muiter]

dsonesuk