title: Can't change Bootstrap pagination color
body: <p>I want to change the bootstrap pagination color but I can't in any way, It is blue no matter what I do. i want o change the .pagination li a.active to red and the .pagination li a to black. What have I done wrong?                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                             </p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;!DOCTYPE html&gt;
  &lt;html lang="pt-br"&gt;
  &lt;head&gt;
    &lt;meta charset="utf-8"&gt;
    &lt;meta name="viewport" content="width=device-width, initial-scale=1"&gt;
    &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="https://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/css/bootstrap.min.css" &lt;link rel="stylesheet" href="http://path/to/font-awesome/css/font-awesome.min.css"&gt;
    &lt;script src="https://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.12.4/jquery.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;script src="http://maxcdn.bootstrapcdn.com/bootstrap/3.3.7/js/bootstrap.min.js"&gt;&lt;/script&gt;
    &lt;style&gt;
    .pagination ul {
      display: inline-block;
      padding: 0;
      margin: 0;
    }
    .pagination li {
      display: inline;
    }
    .pagination li a {
      color: black;
      float: left;
      padding: 8px 16px;
      text-decoration: none;
    }
    .pagination li a.active {
      background-color: red;
      color: white;
    }
    .pagination li a:hover:not(.active) {
      background-color: #ddd;
    }
    &lt;/style&gt;
  &lt;/head&gt;
  
  &lt;body&gt;
    &lt;div class="container text-center"&gt;
      &lt;ul class="pagination"&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;«&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;1&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li class="active"&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;2&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;3&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;4&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;5&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;li&gt;&lt;a href="#"&gt;»&lt;/a&gt;
        &lt;/li&gt;
      &lt;/ul&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt; *emphasized text*&lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/body&gt;
  
  &lt;/html&gt;
  </code></pre>