Changing the Pagetitle colour will not take effect for the Library titles or when the page title is rendered as <a> link

Question

I have modified my pagetitle tag style colour to be white inside my seatle.master page, using the following CSS :-

<h1 id="pageTitle" class="ms-core-pageTitle" style="color:white;float:left;text-align:left;direction:rtl">
  <SharePoint:AjaxDelta id="DeltaPlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea" runat="server">
    <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageTitleInTitleArea" runat="server">
        <SharePoint:SPTitleBreadcrumb
              runat="server"
              RenderCurrentNodeAsLink="true"
                  SiteMapProvider="SPContentMapProvider"
              CentralAdminSiteMapProvider="SPXmlAdminContentMapProvider">
        <PATHSEPARATORTEMPLATE>
          <SharePoint:ClusteredDirectionalSeparatorArrow runat="server" />
        </PATHSEPARATORTEMPLATE>
      </SharePoint:SPTitleBreadcrumb>
    </asp:ContentPlaceHolder>
  </SharePoint:AjaxDelta>
  <SharePoint:AjaxDelta BlockElement="true" id="DeltaPlaceHolderPageDescription" CssClass="ms-displayInlineBlock ms-normalWrap" runat="server">
    <a href="javascript:;" id="ms-pageDescriptionDiv" style="display:none;">
      <span id="ms-pageDescriptionImage">&#160;</span>
    </a>
    <span class="ms-accessible" id="ms-pageDescription">
      <asp:ContentPlaceHolder id="PlaceHolderPageDescription" runat="server" />
    </span>
    <SharePoint:ScriptBlock runat="server">
      _spBodyOnLoadFunctionNames.push("setupPageDescriptionCallout");
    </SharePoint:ScriptBlock>
  </SharePoint:AjaxDelta>
</h1>

This will change the title colour for the home page only , but if i add a library or if I have other pages , then their titles which is rendered as links will stay black.while the home page title is rendered as text. As shown below:-

So my question is how I can force the link text colour which is rendered for the pages title to be white.

Answer 1

I ran into the same problem and found the solution in another stack post

It works if we add the span a extension to the css class

.ms-core-pageTitle span a
{
 background-color:grey!important;
 color:white!important;
}