carousel text colour

been trying to change the colour of the carousel - have added a text-shadow which works fine in most browsers but not IE - so need to changre the colour slightly but cant get it to work - can alter size, align weight etc but not colour

.contents h2 a {
text-align: left;
color: #ffff66;
font-family: 'SansationBold', Verdana, Geneva, sans-serif;
font-weight: bold;
font-size: 50px;
text-shadow: 4px 4px 4px #000000;
}

have tried .hotcarousel etc from what other posters have put but that did not work

while i have been trying to do this my menu styling has disappeared

see screenshot

i replaced the template.css.css with the original file but still no styling

any thoughts

USE

.mp_advert1 .carousel-article h2 a{
color: #ffff66!important;
}

also set Menu Tag ID = nav in top menu module settings

as you can see the carousel worked but the menu didnt

screen shot shows i have change menu ID to nav and used inspect element so you can see that it is reading the nav

Yes, go to template settings and under menu settings set drop-down menu for that menu.

sorry that has not worked

i dont know what has happened

not changed that much
altered logo.php - add my logo
changed the default-items.php because of the COM_unpublished errors in weblinks
changed the templaqte.css.css to add colour to carousel titles and make blog category pics a set size

apart from that i have not changed anything - i have not actually touched this part of the settings until now - it already said drop-down - i have changed it and changed it back