FAQ: Style Methods - CSS II

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This community-built FAQ covers the “CSS II” exercise from the lesson “Style Methods”.

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In the event for when the mouse leaves the navigation menu the background color is changed by changing the color back to its original value manually, is there a way to do this without specifying the color value again? a means of references its previous state just to avoid having to look up what the original color was. thank you

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Is there any advantage to doing it this way instead of adding a “:hover” rule directly to the CSS file?

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Hi, I can’t for the life of me figure out why this code is note passing. The error shows: “Did you pass the CSS method an object?”. Maybe there’s a mistake with the syntax, but I can’t see it. Can anyone explain why it isn’t passing? Many thanks.