How Do I Make The Hover Background Color Fill The Height Of The Link?

How do I make the hover background-color fill the entire height of the navigation bar plus the padding of the text instead of only the text. I want to make it look like this. Fid

Solution 1:

Here you go. I've created a jsfiddle for you. Its working good:

http://jsfiddle.net/cRjF4/3/

Updated CSS:

<style>.fa {
    font-size: 15px;
    margin-top: -10px;
    margin-bottom: -10px;
}

.navbar-height {
    height: 65px;
}

.clearboth {
    clear: both;
}

/* workbar styles */.fixed-top {
    position: fixed;
    top: 0;
    right: 0;
    left: 0;
    background: #FFF;
    text-align: center;
    height: 67px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    width: 100%;
}

.workbar {
    text-align: center;
    margin: 0 auto;
    background-color: #ffe6e6;
}

.worknav {
    list-style: none;
    padding-left: 0px;
    margin: 0 auto;
    text-align: center;
}

.worknav> li {
    text-align: center;
    display: inline-block;
    padding-left: 20px;
    padding-right: 20px;
    padding-top: 11px;
    padding-bottom: 11px;
}

.worknav> li:hovera {
    color: yellow;
}

.worknav>li:hover {
    background-color: black;
}

.worknav > li > a {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #666;
}

.centered {
    float: none;
    margin-left: auto;
    margin-right: auto;
}

.worktop {
    margin-top: 70px;
}
</style>

Solution 2:

If you wish to colour both the padding and the text try something like:

a:hover{
background-color:yellow;
color:red;
}

Solution 3:

Try to do Anchor link css as

.worknav > li > a {    
    text-decoration: none;
    display:inline-block;
    color: #666;
    line-height:65px;



}

Check on http://jsfiddle.net/kka284556/cRjF4/9/

Solution 4:

You can do it by applying padding on anchor tag. Remove height on ul and li tag and instead of height just apply padding on anchor. And also apply background-color on anchor.

It will work i think. If I am right then let me know i'll share some code if you want.