android - How to give actionbar menu a light background -

I need a red toolbar (white mark and white text), but with a light background popup. I can not seem to change the popup background to light until I use it. Light actionbars, which is a problem because it gives me black actionbars text and icons that I do not want

  & lt; Android: layout_height = "wrap_content" android: layout_alignParentLeft = "true" Android: minHeight = "? Attr / actionBarSize" Android: popupTheme = "@ style / ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark" Android: Theme = "@ Style / Theme Overlay. AppCompat.Dark.ActionBar" />  

I tried android: popupTheme = "@ style / ThemeOverlay.AppCompat.Dark" to android: popupTheme = "@ style / ThemeOverlay.AppCompat .

  & lt; style name = "appbashtheme" parent = "theme. App comet Light  NoActionBar ">