Changing color of Twitter bootstrap Nav-Pills

I'm trying to change the active color (after its clicked it remains twitter's light-blue color) for each tab:

 <ul class="nav nav-pills">
   <li class="active"><a href="#tab1" data-toggle="tab">Overview</a></li>
   <li><a href="#tab2" data-toggle="tab">Sample</a></li>
   <li><a href="#tab3" data-toggle="tab">Sample</a></li>
 </ul>

(How) can I do this in CSS?

You can supply your own class to the nav-pills container with your custom color for your active link, that way you can create as many colors as you like without modifying the bootstrap default colors in other sections of your page. Try this:

Markup

<ul class="nav nav-pills red">
    <li class="active"><a href="#tab1" data-toggle="tab">Overview</a></li>
    <li><a href="#tab2" data-toggle="tab">Sample</a></li>
    <li><a href="#tab3" data-toggle="tab">Sample</a></li>
</ul>

And here is the CSS for your custom color:

.red .active a,
.red .active a:hover {
    background-color: red;
}

Also, if you prefer to replace the default color for the .active item in your nav-pills you can modify the original like so:

.nav-pills > .active > a, .nav-pills > .active > a:hover {
    background-color: red;
}

The most voted solution did not work for me.(Bootstrap 3.0.0) However, this did:

.nav-pills > li.active > a, .nav-pills > li.active > a:hover, .nav-pills > li.active > a:focus {
    color:black;
    background-color:#fcd900;
    }

including this on the page <style></style> tags serves for the per page basis well

and mixing it on two shades gives a brilliant effect like:

<style>
    .nav-pills > li.active > a, .nav-pills > li.active > a:focus {
        color: black;
        background-color: #fcd900;
    }

        .nav-pills > li.active > a:hover {
            background-color: #efcb00;
            color:black;
        }
</style>

For Bootstrap 4.0 (in alpha as of the moment of typing) you should specify the .active class on the a element.

For me only the following worked:

.nav-pills > li > a.active {
    background-color: #ff0000 !important;
}

The !important was also necessary.

Edit: added space before the !important according to comment below by CodeMantle

Changing color of Twitter bootstrap Nav-Pills

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