title: Change bootstrap navbar sidebar a element color on first-child
body: <p>The following CSS successfully changes the first child's background color and border of my sidebar nav:</p>
  
  <pre><code>nav.sidebar .navbar-nav &gt; li:first-child{
    border-bottom: 1px #c9c9c9 solid;      
    background: #2980b9;        
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>This CSS is where I need help. I want the first child's font color on the a element to be white, but this code changes all the font colors to white for the whole sidebar.</p>
  
  <pre><code>nav.sidebar .navbar-nav &gt; li &gt; a:first-child{
    color:  #ffffff;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My html:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;nav class="navbar navbar-inverse sidebar" role="navigation"&gt;
    &lt;div class="container-fluid"&gt;
      &lt;div class="navbar-header"&gt;
        &lt;button type="button" class="navbar-toggle" data-toggle="collapse" data-target="#bs-sidebar-navbar-collapse-1"&gt;
          &lt;span class="sr-only"&gt;Toggle navigation&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="icon-bar"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="icon-bar"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
          &lt;span class="icon-bar"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;
        &lt;/button&gt;      
      &lt;/div&gt;
      &lt;div class="collapse navbar-collapse" id="bs-sidebar-navbar-collapse-1"&gt;
        &lt;ul class="nav navbar-nav"&gt;
          &lt;li &gt;&lt;a href="{{ route('admin.dashboard') }}"&gt;Dashboard
          &lt;span style="font-size:16px;" class="pull-right hidden-xs showopacity glyphicon glyphicon-home"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
          &lt;li &gt;&lt;a href="{{ route('admin.athletes') }}"&gt;Athletes
          &lt;span style="font-size:16px;" class="pull-right hidden-xs showopacity glyphicon glyphicon-th-list"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;        
          &lt;li &gt;&lt;a href="{{ route('admin.new_athlete') }}"&gt;Create Athlete
          &lt;span style="font-size:16px;" class="pull-right hidden-xs showopacity glyphicon glyphicon-plus-sign"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
        &lt;/ul&gt;
      &lt;/div&gt;
    &lt;/div&gt;
  &lt;/nav&gt;
  </code></pre>