Changing color with jquery removes hover color?
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So i have:

    #selection_menu .secondary_options button:hover { color: #000066; }
and it works great on my site.. 

When one of these buttons is clicked, however, i run a javascript function that contains:

    $('button').css("color","#FFFFFF");
	if(!$sameTile)
		$($tileSelector).css("color","#000066");

So that when the button is clicked, the highlight color sticks when the mouse is moved away. 

The problem i am having is that after this is run for the first time, the buttons stop changing color when highlighting. How can i get around this? Or is this normal behavior?