Changing the navbar background color

[johnstires]

How does one change the navbar background color without changing the other popup menus?

I tried to create a custom style named .navbar_bgcolor and replaced all the vbmenu_control tags in the navbar template with navbar_bgcolor, but it did not work.

I think my CSS was off

This is what I put in my custom style:

.navbar_color { font-color: #FFFFFF;
background-color:#4C1A79;
}

The color changes but not the font color. However the font defaulting to the body style color.