Would you mind sending me a link to the page? Also, can I just confirm what you mean by ‘active’, as there can be multiple meanings for this.
The :active pseudo selector takes effect for the brief moment while the user’s mouse is being clicked.
The menu link for the current page is also referred to as ‘active’ sometimes. The theme normally adds an extra class to the menu item for the current page. So you would target it using the following type of selector:
P.S. if you really do want to be using :active, it is likely that the theme is overriding your Microthemer selector. So you could try setting !important on the color style. Or increasing the specificity score of your selector. See our tutorial on CSS specificity for more info.
OK, so using :active is the right call. It’s hard to say exactly how to overcome this without viewing the site. But another thought I’ve had is to use :focus as well. So your selector would look like this:
