# Change color of Selected Menu

**URL:** <https://colorlibsupport.com/t/change-color-of-selected-menu/8071>\
**Category:** Sparkling\
**Created:** [September 23, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://colorlibsupport.com/t/change-color-of-selected-menu/8071 "2015-09-23T23:22:16Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![rilaxapp](https://colorlibsupport.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/r/bbce88/32.png) [@rilaxapp](https://colorlibsupport.com/u/rilaxapp)\
**Post date:** [September 23, 2015, 11:22pm UTC](https://colorlibsupport.com/t/change-color-of-selected-menu/8071/1 "2015-09-23T23:22:16Z")

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I need you in the Superior when hovering or select a menu change menu background color of that menu item What should I do? Currently just change the font color of the selected menu or when it passes over the course.

Web site is:

[http://www.enmotocicleta.cl/](http://www.enmotocicleta.cl/)

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**Author:** ![movin](https://colorlibsupport.com/user_avatar/colorlibsupport.com/movin/32/10922_2.png) [@movin](https://colorlibsupport.com/u/movin)\
**Post date:** [September 29, 2015, 1:42pm UTC](https://colorlibsupport.com/t/change-color-of-selected-menu/8071/2 "2015-09-29T13:42:52Z")

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Hi @rilaxapp,

I hope you are well today and thank you for your question.

You can change it by adding the following CSS code in the Custom CSS option of your theme on the below path.

Admin Area -\> Apperance -\> Theme Options -\> Other -\> Custom CSS

```auto
.navbar li.current-menu-item,
.navbar li:hover {
  background-color: #DA4453;
}

```

Please change the color value in the above code to whatever you want to use by referring the following pages.

[http://www.w3schools.com/html/html\_colors.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colors.asp)  
[http://www.w3schools.com/html/html\_colorvalues.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colorvalues.asp)  
[http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref\_colorpicker.asp](http://www.w3schools.com/tags/ref_colorpicker.asp)

Best Regards,  
Movin