CSS - Same Name For Text And Link Styles?

Newbie question...I've always struggled with getting my links to show up right (hover styles, visited styles, etc.)

In this case, I want my links to show up without an underline normally, but with an underline when hovered over. When they're visited, I don't want there to be any difference. I want them to show up normally.

Right now I've got

Code:

.leftnavtext A:link {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #666666;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.leftnavtext A:hover {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #666666;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.leftnavtext A:visited {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #666666;
	text-decoration: none;
}
.leftnavtext {
	font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 10px;
	color: #666666;
}

And when I hover over a visited link, it doesn't get underlined. Any idea why? Thanks.

Hi, I am having trouble setting up different link styles in my site.

My code is:

Code:

.menu {
	font-family: Helvetica;
	font-size: 18px;
	color: #FFFFFF;
	
}

a.menu:link {
	color : #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration : none;
}

a.menu:visited {
	color : #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration : none;
}

a.menu:hover {
	color : #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration : underline;
}




a:link {
	color : #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration : underline;
}

a:visited {
	color : #FFFFFF;
	text-decoration : underline;
}

a:hover {
	color : #FFFFFF;
	font-weight : bold;
	text-decoration : underline;
}

From what I've read this should setup a default style for all links to follow, as well as define an alternate link style for anything in the menu class.

So when I use the following code:

<div class="menu"><I>01</I> &nbsp; <a href="">HOME</a></div>

.. I would have thought the link would follow the style for .menu

But it doesn't. It takes the style of the default links as well.

How do I properly setup an alternate link style??

I have 2 content areas. One with id sidebar2 and another with id maincontent.

I want the links in these separate content areas to have different hover colors and possibly other characteristics.

My problem is, the styles for sidebar2 are being overwritten by the styles in maincontent as it is below it in the style sheet (cascade).

The hover of the words "Good Game" in this example is green which clashes with the background of the sidebars content. It should be a blue color.

Why does a completely separate id overwrite the styling in a previous id? How can I improve this code to get the desired results.

Line numbers eg (line 140) are just referencing where the code appears within the stylesheet and are not actually in the css sheet.

HTML example:

<div id="sidebar2">
<h1>Daily Content</h1>
<ul>
<li>
<a href="(URL)">Good Game</a>
</li></ul>
</div>


#sidebar2 li a:link, li a:visited (line 140)

{

text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #336699;

}

#sidebar2 li a:active, li a:hover (line 148)

{

text-decoration: none;
color: #2986aa;
text-indent: 5px;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;

}

#mainContent a:link, li a:visited (line 157)

{

text-decoration: none;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #003366;

}

#mainContent li a:active, li a:hover (line 166)

{

text-decoration: none;

color: #99cc66;
text-indent: 5px;
font-weight: bold;
font-family: Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;

}

I am trying to use the following in my external style sheet for my links:

Code:

a:link, a:visited{
color: #006699;
text-decoration: underline;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;

}

a:hover {
color: #006699;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 11px;

}

a.big {
color: #006699;
text-decoration: underline;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;

}

a.big:hover {
color: #006699;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 14px;

}

a.bigger {
color: #006699;
text-decoration: underline;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 17px;
font-weight: bold;

}

a.bigger:hover {
color: #006699;
text-decoration: none;
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 17px;
font-weight: bold;
}

My problem is that I can't get big & bigger to work properly in Internet explorer. When I hover over the link it goes to its proper size but when not hovering it stays at 11px.

hi guys,

I'm sure this is an easy fix but it's driving my little non-technical mind nuts...

I have an external style sheet for a site, and it appears to be linked correctly as altering it does affect the text in my site.

HOWEVER, the elements I've included to keep web links displaying as normal text aren't working (visited, hover, active, etc etc)

Please help.

Code below.

.main {
font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 12px;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
link {text-decoration: none;
visited {text-decoration: none;
hover {text-decoration: none;
active {text-decoration: none;
}