selected menu font color issue

[xcoderx]

hey guys why is the font color not changing in the selected menu class? where am i goin wrong? it is showing the active link color but not the one i want it to show. hover is goin ok

 

#menu ul li a {

display: block;

float: left;

height: 30px;

width: 70px;

margin-right: 1px;

text-decoration: none;

font-size: 1.1em;

font-weight: bold;

color: #7BE0A9;

padding-top: 15px;

        text-align: center;

}

 

#menu li a:hover {

color:#1478CB;

background: url(images/menu_h.gif) repeat-x;

}

 

#menu li.selected{

background: url(images/menu_s.gif) repeat-x;

font-weight:bold;

color:#1478CB;

}

[haku]

You have a higher specificity on the initial <a> tag declaration that you do on the .selected declaration, so the .selected declaration will never work. Change it from this:

 

#menu li.selected{

to this

#menu ul li.selected a{

[xcoderx]

thanks sooooo much bro i was actually missing the <a> althou i tried #menu ul li.selected{