Unselected submenu items change from white to black

[Rebecca Morency]

Hi Bill,

Thank you for providing such clear advice. Definitely a fun and adaptable theme.

IE9 definitely does not play nice with menus. Not just Foxy…all WP themes.
On the menu page, the indents for submenus do not hold in IE9.
I switched to Firefox, made the menu changes and all works as it should.

Except the color of unselected submenu items.
I changed the color of the menu and container to a transparent white using the code from other threads.

When a submenu item is selected, the color for the other items within that submenu goes to transparent black.

I’d like the unselected menu items to stay transparent white.

Can you tell me how/where I need to fix the code, please?

Here’s the link of my test site…

http://co-more.com/test/

Thanks for your help.

Rebecca

[Rebecca Morency]

Bill,

I think I resolved this through trial and error.

This post showed me how to change background content and nav bar color

opacity of main content area background and text tweaks

When the black stayed if a sub-page was selected, (in IE9, Mozilla and Chrome) I went to Appearance>Theme Options>Styling>Link Hover Color
and entered the nav bar background color selection that I’d used in the “Custom CSS” code change. The black disappeared and I got the look I wanted.

Another question…

Although I changed the font color in the css code for the content box, is there a piece of code to change the font color to paste in “Custom CSS” so it’s “safer” than going behind the css curtain?

I read something about “fontible plugin” but don’t know anything about that.

[Bill Robbins]

Rebecca,

You beat me to some of your changes. In your navigation, to have the child items of the current page take your white color, you can use this CSS snippet:

.current-menu-parent ul.sub-menu li a, 
.current-menu-item ul.sub-menu li a {
	background-color: transparent;
	background-color: rgba(243,245,235,0.9) !important;
}

Once you’re finished with the color changes, don’t forget to create a background image file for older version of Internet Explorer. The theme uses a small image file for IE 8 and that will override the selected color for those visitors. If you need help with that, let me know.

Fontific is a good plugin for changing text using Google’s web fonts. It lets you specify a HTML element from the theme that you’d like to change. Then you pick a font, color, size and so on. There’s a quick post about it at WMPU.org.

If I can help, just let me know.

Thank you for your business,
Bill

[Rebecca Morency]

Thanks, Bill for the code. Easier to remember to make the necessary changes in one place.

The background image file is on the agenda for this afternoon.

Another question…

When you’re on a child page, instead of the fixed featured image, is there any way to create a separate background images slideshow?

[Bill Robbins]

Rebecca,

Great question about the background gallery. At this time I don’t have that as an option to add in the gallery to the background for a page (or post). It is a feature I’d like to add in the next theme update though. I’ll try my best to get that available soon, maybe even next week.

Bill

[Rebecca Morency]

WOW! I expected, “No, you can’t do that ever.”

Looking forward to the update.

Rebecca

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