How to style an asp.net menu with CSS

Question

I\'m in the process of styling an asp.net menu and I\'m trying to understand the meaning of the StaticSelectedStyle-CssClass and StaticHoverStyle-CssClass parameters.

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Answer 1

The thing to look at is what HTML is being spit out by the control. In this case it puts out a table to create the menu. The hover style is set on the TD and once you select a menu item the control posts back and adds the selected style to the A tag of the link within the TD.

So you have two different items that are being manipulated here. One is a TD element and another is an A element. So, you have to make your CSS work accordingly. If I add the below CSS to a page with the menu then I get the expected behavior of the background color changing in either case. You may be doing some different CSS manipulation that may or may not apply to those elements.