Background normal and background active in css - css

Question

I have the following code in CSS:
#nav li a:active{
background-color:brown;
}
#nav li a.index{background:purple;}
#nav li a.advertiser{background:red;}
#nav li a.publisher{background:green;}
#nav li a.new{background:blue;}
#nav li a.status{background:orange;}
#nav li a:hover {
border-bottom:5px solid brown;
}
and HTML
<ul id="nav">
<li><a class="index"....
<li><a class="advertiser"...
<li><a class="publisher"...
<li><a class="new"....
<li><a class="status".....
</ul>
The thing is that when i click on it, it transforms to brown but it doesn't stay brown.
Where am i mistaking can't realize.

Answer 1

the :active state will only be active when the user clicks on it; anchor or buttons' active states don't persists after the click is finished.
If you want to keep the anchor to brown after a click, you can use jquery to push a specific class when the user clicks on an anchor:
$('#nav a').on('click', function(e){
e.preventDefault(); //?
$('#nav a.active').removeClass('active');
$(this).addClass('active');
})

Answer 2

:active will give the highlights when the button or text is pressed, you need to code jquery to achieve this. Try this example:
<ul>
<li><a class="black classname" id="click">Home</a></li>
<li><a class="black" id="click">about</a></li>
<li><a class="black" id="click">services</a></li>
</ul>
CSS
.black{color:black}
.classname{color:red}
Jquery
$(document).ready(function(){
$("a#click").click(function(){
$("a").removeClass('classname')
$(this).addClass('classname')
});
});
Demo http://jsfiddle.net/XFYjz/