Block hover effect on anchor elements - html

Question

I want to add a block hover effect on my menu. However, the template that I bought has a large stylesheet that looks like it came out of Darth Vader's rear end - and my coding knowledge is limited making this task difficult.
Here is a fiddle of the menu part of my site (it contains the entire stylesheet as well): http://jsfiddle.net/VjhJ4/
Upon hover, I want a block hover effect with each menu link having a different block color, see this picture as example (note that I want the block to be small when the mouse is not on it): http://i.imgur.com/1xbbl.png
I came across a script that does this.
HTML:
<div id="links">
<ul>
<li><a href="#" title="Text">Link Heading One
<em>Description of link.</em>
<span>Date posted</span></a></li>
<li><a href="#" title="Text">Link Heading One
<em>Description of link.</em>
<span>Date posted</span></a></li>
</ul>
</div>
CSS:
#links li {
border: 1px dotted #999;
border-width: 1px 0;
margin: 5px 0;
}
#links li a {
color: #990000;
display: block;
font: bold 120% Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
padding: 5px;
text-decoration: none;
}
* html #links li a { /* make hover effect work in IE */
width: 400px;
}
#links li a:hover {
background: #ffffcc;
}
#links a em {
color: #333;
display: block;
font: normal 85% Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height: 125%;
}
#links a span {
color: #125F15;
font: normal 70% Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif;
line-height: 150%;
}
I read that hover only works in certain IE versions on anchor elements so I would presume that this technique is the best one to go with.
Now, how can I add this to my own page? Feel free to update the fiddle: http://jsfiddle.net/VjhJ4/
And please let me know if you would need any more info.

Answer 1

You need to add border-bottom and background color on hover.
See this Demo http://jsfiddle.net/enve/VjhJ4/7/

Answer 2

see this DEMO. you need to set the background color etc on hover

Answer 3

Change:
a:hover { text-decoration: underline; }
to (changing the color to whatever color you actually want):
a:hover { text-decoration: underline; background-color:red; }
and change:
a { text-decoration: none; color: #00b7f3;}
to (changing the color to whatever color you actually want):
a { text-decoration: none; color: #00b7f3; border-bottom-color: red; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-width: 5px;}
Demo: http://jsfiddle.net/KqaC8/
Edit: This will only do the hover color, working on the bottom color when not hovering, please hold.
Edit 2: This should do everything you want now.

Answer 4

http://codepen.io/anon/pen/wqpdI
Here's an example I made with what I believe you need. It's actually very simple, and there are many ways to do it! Basically each link (or it's parent) would need a class, and then you can change the colors for each class's tag.

Answer 5

I understand that you do not understand much of CSS, and you buy a template, so you must not knowing much of it.
Thats okay, so before all people send you stuff and solutions that you don't understand, i updated your fiddle with the result like the picture you referring at:
This is your fiddle
ul#secondary-menu a { font-size: 13px; color: #48423f; text-decoration: none; text-transform: uppercase; font-weight: bold; padding: 22px 16px 0 16px; }
ul#secondary-menu #menu-item-33 a {border-bottom:5px solid #00f;}
ul#secondary-menu #menu-item-34 a {border-bottom:5px solid #0f0;}
ul#secondary-menu #menu-item-35 a {border-bottom:5px solid #f00;}
ul#secondary-menu a:hover { color: #fff;text-shadow: 0 0;}
ul#secondary-menu #menu-item-33 a:hover {background-color:#00f;}
ul#secondary-menu #menu-item-34 a:hover{background-color:#0f0;}
ul#secondary-menu #menu-item-35 a:hover{background-color:#f00;}

Answer 6

If you don't want to modify the CSS you in the template you have, you can do something like this...
li.menu-item:hover{background:red !important;}
The !important will just override the templates styles
Here is a fiddle that gives you some basic css.. you can still use !important to make sure it overrides your template code http://jsfiddle.net/cX5bk/