Hover effect problem

[Kaladan]

I have something of this sort:

ul class="menu"

li

(a href="#"(span class="menu-entypo")⌂(/span)Home(/a)

/li

/ul

I want to get the entypo font-icon to turn a color while the home text turns another color on hover over the a link. How do i do that ? Better yet, can i do that? I searched google but i can’t seem to find a way to do this and so i thought where else to find an answer then here sooooo here i am. Can anyone help me?

[Andy Howells]

EDIT: Hang on I reread your question. You want the regular text and the icon to be different colours?

That’s actually a good one.

How is the entypo character being loaded right now? Is it done via :before?

If so you could chain the selector;

span.menu-entypo:hover:before { color: red; }

[Kaladan]

That is exactly what i want. I want the icon and the text to be different colors when i hover the link they are within.
So far i load the icon via a span before the home text. I haven’t really tried it with :before yet, although i hear this is the best way to use it. The reason i haven’t tried it like that is because i thought writing it my way would be easier to actually do what i wanted it to do.
I will try your method and i will get back to you as soon as i can. Unfortunately my day job takes a lot of my time. I bet you don’t have a lot of accountants members around here :))

[magnus_vb]

Hey Kaladan,
This might be one way to do it: [hover two colors](http://codepen.io/Magnusvb/pen/ljqsu “hover two colors”)

li a:hover {
color: red;
}

a:hover .menu-entypo {
color: green;
}

I tried to solve it without the span – but could not

[Kaladan]

This is excellent. Exactly what i needed. Thanks a lot Magnus_vb. Now that i see it, it seems quite easy but, by God, i wouldn’t have come up with this solution to save my life.

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