How to highlight the parent item in active state without the children being affected in wordpress navigation?

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I’ve been trying to code a wordpress drop down menu. Please see here: http://www.hongkong8.info/.

I have almost got it to behave the way I want except one thing. When I click on the “ABOUT” link, that triggers the active state which is the color #111154. this is correct, however if you roll over the “ABOUT” link again you see that its child pages “ABOUT 1” and “ABOUT 2” are also highlight with the color #111154, this is not what I want. I just want the parent page to be highlighted in the active state color and not its children pages. Its children pages should have the color of #01011D.

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The menu uses the default wordpress classes .ie register_nav_menus etc. I have tried different css classes but can’t pinpoint the right class. My feeling was that it could be targetted using .current-menu-item, but I don’t know how to target the child menu items

Have included the CSS for the nav menu below. Any insight is much appreciated! 

/* Navigation Menus */
.site-nav ul {
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0;
}

.site-nav ul:before, .site-nav ul:after {content: ""; display: table;}
.site-nav ul:after {clear:both;}
.site-nav ul {*zoom: 1;}

.site-nav ul li {
	list-style: none;
	float: left;
}

.site-nav ul ul {
	display:none;
	position: relative;
	float: left;
	background: #01011D;
}

.site-nav ul li:hover ul{
	display: block;
	float: left;
	position: absolute;
	width:130px;
}

.site-nav ul ul a:hover{
	background-color: #ECECEC;
	display: block;
}

.site-nav ul ul li,
.site-nav ul ul a {
	float: none;
}

/* site header menu*/

div.nav-wrapper{
	width: 960px;
	background: #1c137f; /* Old browsers */
	background: -moz-linear-gradient(top,  #1c137f 2%, #0b093c 27%, #0b093c 70%, #020014 100%); /* FF3.6+ */
	background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, color-stop(2%,#1c137f), color-stop(27%,#0b093c), color-stop(70%,#0b093c), color-stop(100%,#020014)); /* Chrome,Safari4+ */
	background: -webkit-linear-gradient(top,  #1c137f 2%,#0b093c 27%,#0b093c 70%,#020014 100%); /* Chrome10+,Safari5.1+ */
	background: -o-linear-gradient(top,  #1c137f 2%,#0b093c 27%,#0b093c 70%,#020014 100%); /* Opera 11.10+ */
	background: -ms-linear-gradient(top,  #1c137f 2%,#0b093c 27%,#0b093c 70%,#020014 100%); /* IE10+ */
	background: linear-gradient(to bottom,  #1c137f 2%,#0b093c 27%,#0b093c 70%,#020014 100%); /* W3C */
	filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient( startColorstr='#1c137f', endColorstr='#020014',GradientType=0 ); /* IE6-9 */
	margin: 0 auto;
	text-align: left;
	border-top:solid 1px #fff;
	box-shadow: 1px 1px 20px 1px #040315;
	border-bottom:solid 1px #7E0000;
	position: relative;
	float:left;
	z-index: 20;
}



.site-header nav ul li a:link,
.site-header nav ul li a:visited{
	display: block;
	padding: 7px 25px;
	text-decoration: none;
}

.site-header nav ul li a:hover {
	background-color: #ECECEC; /*hover state*/
}

.site-header nav ul li.current-menu-item a:link,
.site-header nav ul li.current-menu-item a:visited {
	background-color: #111154; /*active state*/
	color: #FFF;
}
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  1. Looking at the structure, you could probably use the direct descendant selector to target only the anchor at the first level, like this:

    .site-header nav ul li.current-menu-item > a:link,
.site-header nav ul li.current-menu-item > a:visited {
    background-color: #111154; /*active state*/
    color: #FFF;
}

    This shouldn’t apply the #111154 background color to the anchors in the sub menu.