CSS Links Doesn't Work?

Question

i have a ccs sheet that contains the following:

BODY, P, TABLE,TD,TR {
background-color: #000000;
font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 12px;
color : Black;
}

A:HOVER {
font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 12px;
color : #FFFFFF;
text-decoration : underline;
}
A:LINK, A:ACTIVE, A:VISITED {
font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 12px;
color : #FF0000;
text-decoration : underline;
}

TD.header {
background-color : #000000;
font-family : Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size : 12px;
color : #FFFFFF;
font-weight : bold;
border : 1px solid #FFFFFF;
padding : 2px 2px 2px 2px;
text-align : center;
}
.error {
color: #ff0000;
border-color: #ff0000;
border-width: 1px;
}
.specialcat {
color: #FF0000;
}
INPUT,SELECT,TEXTAREA {
background-color: #ffffff;
color: #000000
}

All of the background stuff works but it doesn't effect my links.

it's really pissin me off because I got the style sheet from a friend for who it works just fine. The links should be red with a hover of white...Everything looks fine to me I don't know why it doesn't work.
Heres the link to the page using the style sheet.

http://www.x-gfx.com/news/viewnews.php?direct=1&cat=0&limit=5&newdays=0

http://www.x-gfx.com/news/panews.css

Theres the style sheet itself.

krash is an email link and should be red.

Answer 1

The problem is that the code for your "krash" links looks like this:

krash

with no

href="mailto:your_email_address"

attribute. So, since your tag is not actually a link (no href attribute), your A:LINK css style doesn't work properly.

You can fix this in either of two ways:

1) in the tag, add the href attribute, or

2) change your

A:LINK

style to simply

A

Either should work fine.

Answer 2

I think you have other issues.. here is what I get when I follow your link

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home2/xgfx/public_html/news/viewnews.php on line 88

Check your php code something tells me the way you are entering the links is probably the issue.
Dont forget CSS has Parents, childeren etc. usually the rules work when used as designed.