I have a main menu, then a series of sub-menus that fade-in when one of the main menu items are clicked.  I want to highlight the main menu of the selected sub-menu and have done so using:

Then when you select another main menu item I wrote this to change it back:

It all looks good, except after I've changed the color back to #bbb, I can't get the hover color to be black again.  Is there a better of highlighting the menu items?

 

Thanks