title: How to add a transparent hover state to a button
body: <p>I'm struggling to add a transparent background to my button.</p>
  
  <p>I know it's quite simple but I'm not sure what I'm doing wrong for it not to take effect.</p>
  
  <p>The Html code I've written:</p>
  
  <pre><code>&lt;div class="footer-text-cta"&gt;
      &lt;p&gt;Want to know what equipment I use when I go kayaking?&lt;button class="green-button"&gt;&lt;a href="#" class="manual-optin-trigger" data-optin-slug="atefh5rvxazforll"&gt;I want to know!&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/button&gt;&lt;/p&gt;
  &lt;/div&gt;
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>My CSS code:</p>
  
  <pre><code>  button.green-button{
    font-family: 'Open Sans', 'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;
    padding: 7px 20px !important;
    border-radius: 5px;
    margin: 0px 0px 0px 20px;
    background-color: #1ec279;
    border: 3px solid #1ec279;
    border-radius: 5px;
  }
  
  button.green-button a {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #fff;
  }
  
  button.green-button a:hover{
    background-color: transparent;
    color: #1ec279;
  }
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I've added an image of what I'm trying to get the button to look like below.
  <a href="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rA4ov.jpg" rel="nofollow noreferrer"><img src="https://i.stack.imgur.com/rA4ov.jpg" alt="enter image description here"></a></p>