Why cannot override CSS background color on Bootstrap button?

Question

What I want to happen

What's actually happening

I want to toggle the red-background class, so that when the mouse hovers over the button-bullet, it changes its background-color to #FCC1C5.

I don't want to use .btn.button-bullet:hover because I have some jQuery logic that disables the remove button from showing up when there is only one bullet element on screen.

For some reason, when I toggleClass("red-background"), nothing shows up.

I think it might be because in the CSS, I set .btn.button-bullet's background-color to transparent. So if that is the problem, how do I override the background-color in jQuery?

Code

HTML

<div class="worksheet-problems">
  <div class="row">
    <div class="col-lg-7">
      <div class="form-group">
        <div class="input-group input-group-lg worksheet-problem">
          <div class="input-group-btn">
            <button type="button" class="btn btn-default button-bullet"> <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-one-fine-dot" aria-hidden="true"></span> </button>
          </div>
          <input type="text" name="Worksheet-Problem" class="form-control" placeholder="Problem..." aria-label="Write worksheet problem here">
          <div class="input-group-btn">
            <button type="button" class="btn btn-default button-add" aria-label="Add"> <span class="glyphicon glyphicon-plus-sign" aria-hidden="true"></span> </button>
          </div>
        </div>
      </div>
    </div>
  </div>
</div>

CSS

.red-background{
  background-color: #FCC1C5;
}
/*get rid of Boostrap default grey for buttons*/
.btn.button-add, .btn.button-bullet{
  background-color: transparent;
}

jQuery

$(document).ready(function() {
  $(".worksheet-problems").on("mouseenter mouseleave", ".button-bullet", function() {
    if ($(".worksheet-problems").children().length > 1) {
      $(this).children(".glyphicon").toggleClass("glyphicon-one-fine-dot");
      $(this).toggleClass("red-background");
      $(this).children(".glyphicon").toggleClass("glyphicon-minus-sign");
    }
  });
});

JSFiddle

Answer 1

Problem: your red-background class has lower specificity than .btn.button-bullet.

Solution (add more specificity and place it after selectors with transparent background):

.btn.button-add, .btn.button-bullet {
  background-color: transparent;
}
.btn.red-background {
  background-color: #FCC1C5;
}