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Add the following CSS to the theme’s custom CSS area found in the Customizer:

.widget_cnw_categories li.cat-item.current-cat {
    background-color: #666;
    padding: 6px 12px;
}

.widget_cnw_categories li.current-cat a {
    color: #fff;
}

Tweak the colors as desired.

I hope this helps; please let me know.

Oh, sorry I forget to mention what will change…

This will make the currently active category have a background color with white text. I chose a grey color from the theme for the background color.

Thank you Steven,

I added this CSS which sort of worked. It does highlight a category but does not change when I select a new category. (see

.widget_cnw_categories li.cat-item.current-cat {
background-color: #2c651a;
padding: 6px 12px;
}

.widget_cnw_categories li.current-cat a {
color: #fff;
}