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HTML
<div id="wrapper">
<div id="box">
<a id="anchor" href=""><div id="internalArrow"></div></a>
</div>
</div>
CSS
#box
{
background-color: rgb(217, 9, 122);
height: 50px;
width: 50px;
position: absolute;
top:50%
}
#box:after {
content: ' ';
height: 0;
position: absolute;
width: 0;
border: 20px solid transparent;
border-right-color: #ffffff;
top: 50%;
left: 10%;
margin-left:-15px;
margin-top:-20px;
}
#internalArrow
{
width:0;
height:0;
position:absolute;
border: 20px solid transparent;
border-right-color: rgb(217, 9, 122);
top: 50%;
left: 10%;
margin-left:-5px;
margin-top:-20px;
z-index:100;
}
#box:hover #internalArrow
{
background-color:rgb(189, 64, 132);
}
#wrapper
{
height:600px;
width:50px;
background-color:#ffffff;
opacity:0.9;
}