Question

I am using drupal 7’s premium responsive theme, and I cannot seem to make the drop-down transparency work. I have used both methods of making items transparent and neither worked.

1st –

#main-menu li li a,
#main-menu li li a:link,
#main-menu li li a:visited {
    background-color: none;
    background: rgb(0, 16, 38);
    background: rgba(0, 16, 38, 0.75);
    border-top-width: 0;
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 14px;
    padding: 10px 10px;
    text-transform: none;
    width: 85px;
    font-weight: 400;
}

2nd – made a transparent image in photoshop

#main-menu li li a,
#main-menu li li a:link,
#main-menu li li a:visited {
    background-color: none;
    background-image: url('images/transparent.png');
    background-repeat: repeat;
    border-top-width: 0;
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 14px;
    padding: 10px 10px;
    text-transform: none;
    width: 85px;
    font-weight: 400;
}

For some reason I cannot remove the background color through my css, even with background set to none (yes I have tried deleting it completely, using !important, and transparent).

I think part of the problem is that the actual base theme won’t let you have the sub-menu background color be equal to nothing, yet I have searched through the php and haven’t been able to find anything that would be declaring the background to grab a default color. Any thoughts?

Here is a screenshot

Answer 1

In the inspector in Chrome I’ve added in the following style:

#main-menu li ul li a {
    background: red !important;
    opacity: 0.5;
}

This has changed the sub nav items for me. It looks like you’re missing the ul in the selectors. Try changing it to this:

#main-menu li ul li a,
#main-menu li ul li a:link,
#main-menu li ul li a:visited {
    background: rgb(0, 16, 38);
    background: rgba(0, 16, 38, 0.75);
    border-top-width: 0;
    color: #fff;
    font-size: 14px;
    padding: 10px 10px;
    text-transform: none;
    width: 85px;
    font-weight: 400;
}