Can't change highlight hover color in a nav bar using Materialize CSS
<p>I want to change the hover bg color in a nav bar for another one using MaterializeCSS , the default effect just make the highlight darker,  i need to change that highlight  to another color like white.</p>

<p>When the navbar color is black, there is no highlight or hover effect.</p>

<p>I can change the bg of the nav bar color, the text color but i can't change the background highlight color, any ideas?</p>

<p>Thank you in advance</p>

<pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
&lt;html&gt;

&lt;head&gt;
&lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/materialize/0.97.2/css/materialize.min.css"&gt;
&lt;!-- Compiled and minified JavaScript --&gt;
&lt;script src="https://cdnjs.cloudflare.com/ajax/libs/materialize/0.97.2/js/materialize.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;

&lt;style&gt;    
nav ul li a{
  color: orange;
}    
&lt;/style&gt;
&lt;/head&gt;

&lt;body&gt;
&lt;header class="top-nav"&gt;

&lt;div class="navbar-fixed"&gt;
  &lt;nav&gt;
    &lt;div class="nav-wrapper black blue-text"&gt;
      &lt;a href="#!" class="brand-logo center"&gt;Logo&lt;/a&gt;
      &lt;ul class="left hide-on-med-and-down"&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="sass.html"&gt;Sass&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="badges.html"&gt;Components&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li class="active"&gt;&lt;a href="collapsible.html"&gt;JavaScript&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ul&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/nav&gt;
&lt;/div&gt;

&lt;/header&gt;
&lt;main&gt;&lt;/main&gt;
&lt;footer&gt;&lt;/footer&gt;
&lt;/body&gt;
&lt;/html&gt;
</code></pre>

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