CSS the_excerpt styling problem

Heh! The church where my parents married in 1942 and where I was baptised in 1947!

If I understand you correctly, you’re talking about the fact that the text doesn’t go white when you hover over a truncated excerpt (one with a ‘More’ link).

I think you need a style rule for:

div.article_excerpt p a:hover {
    color: #FFF;
}

If that doesn’t work you probably need to just keep on making it more and more specific until it gets enough points to over-ride any similar rule. And you’ll probably need to do it in your second style sheet to ensure it’s read late in the cascade.

You could even do it in the style sheet of a child theme, if you’re not using a child theme already. Which I hope you are, by the way.

HTH

PAE

Thanks for that. It hasn’t worked, but I’ll keep pressing on. What a coincidence about St Thomas’! The CSS I am using is a child theme, yes.

Try making the rule more specific by walking back up the tree. I don’t suggest you go as mad as this (although you could), but you could take a selection from this:

div#content
div#latest_posts_wrapper
div.article_loop_wrapper
div.article_excerpt_link_wrap
div.article_exerpt
p
a:hover
{
   ...
}

In fact you could walk all the way back to the body tag if you wanted, but something before then should work.

Cheers

PAE