CSS - Changing Image Border Color

i am trying to get rid of the border in IE9 or have the border color to match with the background color so that it doesn't look like there is one. This code works on google chrome but doesn't work on IE9.

on the css i have:
div.menu ul li a, div.menu ul li a:visited
{
background-color:#3a4f63;
border: 1px #4e667d solid;
color: #dde4ec;
display: block;
line-height: 1.35em;
padding: 4px 20px;
text-decoration: none;
white-space: nowrap;
border-color:#3a4f63;
}
on the asp page I have:

<asp:Menu ID="NavigationMenu" runat="server" CssClass="menu" EnableViewState="false" IncludeStyleBlock="false" Orientation="Horizontal">
<Items>
<asp:MenuItem Text="About Us">
</asp:MenuItem>

<asp:MenuItem Text="Freight Services" Value="Freight Services"></asp:MenuItem>
<asp:MenuItem Selectable="False"></asp:MenuItem>
<asp:MenuItem Selectable="False"></asp:MenuItem>
<asp:MenuItem Selectable="False"></asp:MenuItem>
<asp:MenuItem Selectable="False"></asp:MenuItem>
<asp:MenuItem Selectable="False"></asp:MenuItem>
<asp:MenuItem Selectable="False"></asp:MenuItem>
<asp:MenuItem Selectable="False"></asp:MenuItem>
<asp:MenuItem Selectable="False"></asp:MenuItem>
<asp:MenuItem Text="Customers" Value="Customers"></asp:MenuItem>
<asp:MenuItem Selectable="False" Text="Carrier Corner" Value="Carrier Corner">
<asp:MenuItem Text="Carrier Setup" Value="Carrier Setup"
NavigateUrl="~/Account/Register.aspx?ReturnUrl=~/Carrier.aspx&TypeOfUser=Carrier"></asp:MenuItem>
</asp:MenuItem>
<asp:MenuItem Text="Contact Us" Value="Contact Us"></asp:MenuItem>
</Items>
</asp:Menu>

I'm building a site (still sort of a novice) using CSS and I can't seem to get the border colors to display correctly.

I would like the top-border to be the same color as right and left. When viewed in Dreamweaver, the border appears orange but when viewed in browser, the border is black.

How do I get the top border to be orange?

Here is my CSS:
Code:

#right_body {
	width: 708px;
	float: left;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 12px;
	display: inline;
	border-top: 3px;
	border-top-style: solid;
	border-top-color: FF6A00;
	border-left: 2px;
	border-left-style: solid;
	border-left-color: #FF6A00;
	border-right: 2px;
	border-right-style: solid;
	border-right-color: #FF6A00;
}

And my HTML:
Code:

<div id="left_side">left</div>
  <div id="right_body"> middle  </div>
    <div id="right_side">right</div>

Like many programmers I use a combination of a bunch of different things to provide me the website I want. I use php, css, sql . . . more than one thing.

I have a utility written in '04 by Patrick Fitzgerald (http://www.barelyfitz.com/projects/csscolor/) I use on almost every site I code. I don't put it in the page, I put it in the css file like this:

Code:

<?php
	header("Content-type: text/css");
	include_once("../inc/csscolor.php");
	include('inc/settings.inc');
	$basea = new CSS_Color($darka);
	$baseb = new CSS_Color($darkb);
?>

Then in the css I use something like

Code:

.cart_button {
	border:1px solid #<?= $baseb->bg['+2']; ?>;
	padding:2 4;
	background-color:<?= $baseb->bg['+3']; ?>;
	color:black;
	margin-bottom:-6;
}
#basket {
	float:right; 
	width:140px;
	border:1px solid <?= $baseb->bg['+3']; ?>;
	padding:10px;
}
td.cart, th.cart {
	border:1px solid <?= $baseb->bg['+3']; ?>;
	padding:6px;
}

to display the color of elements.

So here's my conundrum. I have elements with borders that aren't displaying. I'm pretty sure it's a compatibility issue. It renders in IE but not in FF.

Thoughts?

HeadElf

Greetings

I hope the title wasn't too confusing. If not this is sure to be.

What I have is and Unordered List that has a heading in each List Item and then a few items under that. The List Items are links arranged in a grid that have a hover effect on mouseover.

Due to the colors I want the heading (in this case h2) in each li to change color on the a:hover (the hover over anywhere on each li, not just over the h2 text).

How can I achieve this?

Here is some code to (hopefully) clarify:
Code:

#lower {
	width: 765px;
	float: left;
	margin-top: 10px;
	margin-right: 0px;
	margin-bottom: 0px;
	margin-left: 10px;
	padding-top: 0px;
	padding-right: 0px;
	padding-bottom: 20px;
	padding-left: 0px;
}
#lower ul {
	width: 775px;
	list-style-type: none;
	margin: 0;
	padding: 0px;
}
#lower  ul  li {
	font-family: "Trebuchet MS";
	font-size: 14px;
	width: 250px;
	float: left;
}
#lower ul li a {
	text-decoration: none;
	display: block;
	height: 125px;
	color: #262626;
}
#lower ul li a:hover {
	background-color: #5B8C3E;
	color: #D9D9D9;
}

#lower h2 {
	font-family: "Trebuchet MS";
	font-size: 16px;
	margin: 0px;
	color: #262626;
}
#lower a h2:hover {
	color: #D9CE3F;
}

As is the h2 only changes when it is directly hovered, not the the li.

Thanks in advance for your help.

Ok I simply cannot figure this one out. All I'm trying to do is change the font color so that the text like "Choose a Username" is not black but white.

Here is the link to the page
http://www.technicalhypnotherapy.com/wordpress/?page_id=128

This is my CSS. I think the more relevant tags are the last ones.

Code:

/*  
Theme Name: Pixel
Theme URI: http://85ideas.com/public-releases/wordpress-theme-pixel/
Description: Dark WP theme with 2-3 column layout, dropdown categories menu, multiple widget-ready placement and Feedburner email form integrated, easy to customize. Enjoy!
Author: Sam @ 85ideas.com
Author URI: http://85ideas.com/
Version: 2.0.2
Tags: black, blue, three-columns, two-columns, threaded-comments, fixed-width, theme-options, right-sidebar, sticky-post
.
Released under <a href="http://www.opensource.org/licenses/gpl-license.php">GPL</a>.
.
*/

/* Defaults */

* {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  }
:focus {
  outline:0;
  }
h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, p {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 10px 0;
  }

h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6 {
  font-family: Verdana;
  }

hr {
  color: #333;
  border: 1px solid #121212;
  }

pre {
  height: auto; 
  overflow-x:scroll;
  }

fieldset {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0; 
  border: 0;
  }

dd {
  padding-left: 15px;
  }


p {
  font-size: 9pt;
  }

a {
  color: #6598b8;
  text-decoration: none;
  }

a:hover {
  color: #222;
  text-decoration: underline;
  }

a img {
  border: none;  
  }

blockquote {
  background: #070707;
  border: 1px solid #060606;
  padding: 5px 15px;
  margin: 10px 10px 5px 15px;
  font-style: italic;
  color: #fff;
  }

code {
  color: #3366cc;
  font-style: italic;
  }

strong {
  font-size: 110%;
  }

body {
  text-align: center;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0 0 15px 0;
  font-family: trebuchet ms, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
  background: #000 url(images/bgbody.jpg) top center no-repeat;
  color: #eee;
  }


/* Header and wrapper */
#wrapper {
  margin: 0 auto;
  width: 960px;
  text-align: left;
  padding: 0;
  }

#header {
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  height: 80px;
  text-shadow: 0 0 4px #555;
  }

#header #topright {
  text-align: right;
  float: right;
  width: 930px;
  margin: 3px 0 0 0;
}
#header #topright ul {
  list-style: none;
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  }
#header #topright li {
  display: inline;
  }
#header #topright li a {
  color: #fff;
  font-size: 9pt;
  padding: 0 0 0 25px;
  text-transform: lowercase;
  }
#header #topright li a:hover {
  color: #ccc;
  text-decoration: none;
  }

#header #logo {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
}
#header h1 {
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  }
#header h1 a {
  color: #fff;
  font-size: 17pt;
  text-decoration: none;
  }
#header h1 a:hover {
  color: #eee;
  text-decoration: none;
  }
#header span {
  padding: 0;
  color: #eee;
  font-size: 10pt;
  }


/* Menu */

#catnav {
  margin: 20px 0 0 0;
  padding: 0;
  clear: both;
  height: 44px;
  width: 960px;
  }

#nav {
  list-style: none;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  }
	
#nav ul {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  }

#nav li {
  float: left;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  }

#nav a {
  display: block;
  line-height: 44px;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0 20px 0 15px;
  font-size: 10pt;
  color: #fff;
  letter-spacing: -1px;
  }

#nav li a:hover {
  color: #6598b8;
  text-decoration: none;
  display: block;
  }

#nav li ul {
  list-style: none;
  position: absolute;
  width: 150px;
  left: -999em;
  }

#nav li:hover ul, #nav li.sfhover ul {
  left: auto;
  }
	
#nav li li {
  float: left;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  width: 150px;
  }
	
#nav li li a {
  width: 150px;
  height: 24px;
  line-height: 24px;
  color: #fff;
  border-top: 1px solid #131f27;
  background: #040404;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 5px 20px 5px 15px;
  }
	
#nav li li a:hover {
  border-top: 1px solid #131f27;
  background: #000;
  padding: 5px 20px 5px 15px;
  }

#nav li:hover, #nav li.sfhover { /* prevents IE7 drop-down menu bug (focus on a page element prevents nested menus from disappearing) */
  position: static;
  }

#toprss {
  float: right;
  margin: 10px 15px 0 0;
  display: inline;
  width: 65px;
  line-height: 41px;
  }



/* Top Content */

#main {
  margin: 5px 15px 0 15px;
  clear: both;
  width: 930px;
  padding-bottom: 5px;
  }
#contentwrapper {
  float:left;
  width: 560px;
  margin: 0 0 15px 0;
  padding: 0;
  }
#contentwrapper2 {
  float:left;
  width: 900px;  margin: 0 0 15px 0;
  padding: 0;
  }
#contentwrapper .pageTitle, #contentwrapper2 .pageTitle {
  margin: 15px 0 10px 0;
  font-size: 14pt;
  letter-spacing: -1px;
  color: #fff;
  font-weight: normal;
  background: url(images/bg-trans.png) repeat;
  padding: 5px;
  }
.topPost {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  font-size: 9pt;
  }
.topPost h2.topTitle a {
  font-size: 15pt;
  font-weight: normal;
  color: #fff;
  letter-spacing: -2px;
  }
.topPost h2.topTitle a:hover {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #abd1ea;
  }
.topPost p.topMeta {
  padding: 0;
  margin: -10px 0 0 0;
  font-size: 9pt;
  color: #cdcdcd;  
  }
.topPost p.topMeta a {
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #fff;
  }
.topPost p.topMeta a:hover {
  color: #ccc;
  text-decoration: underline;
  }
.topPost div.topContent {
  font-size: 9pt;
  color: #efefef;
  margin: 8px 0;
  }
.topPost div.topContent p {
  font-size: 1.05em;
  line-height: 1.6em;
  }
.topPost div.topContent a {
  text-decoration: underline;
  color: #fff;
  }
.topPost div.topContent a:hover {
  text-decoration: underline;
  color: #ff9933;
  }

.topPost div.topContent ul, .topPost div.topContent ol {
  padding: 0 0 0 30px;
  }
.topPost div.topContent ul li, .topPost div.topContent ol li {
  font-size: 1.05em;
  color: #eee;
  }
.topPost span.topComments, .topPost span.topMore, .topPost span.topTags {
  font-size: 9pt;
  font-style: italic;
  background: url(images/bg-trans.png) repeat;
  padding: 8px 10px;
  margin-right: 5px;
  line-height: 27pt;
  color: #fff;
  border: 1px solid #111;
  }
.topPost span.linkpages {
  font-size: 9pt;
  font-style: italic;
  color: #fff;
  margin-bottom: 10px; display:block;
  }
.topPost span.linkpages a:hover {
  color: #ddd;
  }
.topPost span.topComments:hover, .topPost span.topMo hover, .topPost span.topTags:hover {
  background: #040404;
  }
.topPost span.topComments a {
  color: #fff;
  background: url(images/comments.gif) left no-repeat;
  padding-left: 20px;
  line-height: 27pt;
  vertical-align: middle;
  }
.topPost span.topMore a {
  color: #fff;
  background: url(images/more.gif) left no-repeat;
  padding-left: 20px;
  line-height: 27pt;
  vertical-align: middle;
  }
.topPost span.topTags em {
  background: url(images/tags.gif) left no-repeat;
  padding-left: 20px;
  line-height: 27pt;
  vertical-align: middle;
  color: #0a0a0a;
  }
.topPost span.topTags a {
  color: #fff;
  line-height: 27pt;
  vertical-align: middle;
  }
.topPost span.topComments a:hover, .topPost span.topMore a:hover, .topPost span.topTags a:hover {
  color: #fff;
  text-decoration: underline;
  }

#nextprevious {
  margin: 10px 0 5px 0;
  }
#nextprevious a {
  color: #eee;
  text-transform: lowercase;
  border: 1px solid #111;
  padding: 5px 8px;
  font-size: 10pt;
  line-height: 1.4em;
  }
#nextprevious a:hover {
  color: #fff;
  }


/* Comments */

#comments {
  margin-bottom: 10px;
  margin-top: 15px;
  background: #040404;
  width: 530px; /* fixes bug in IE7 where putting focus on the text makes it disappear behind the background. yeah, weird. they call it a dimensional bug. */
  border: 1px solid #090909;
  padding: 0px 15px 10px 15px;
  color: #fff;
  }
#comments h3 {
  font-size: 10pt;
  font-weight: normal;
  color: #fff;
  margin: 15px 0;
  padding: 0;
  }
#comments p a {
  color: #6598b8;
  }
#comments p a:hover {
  color: #fff;
  }
#comments p {
  padding:0;
  margin: 7px 0;
  }
ul.commentlist, ul.trackback  {
  list-style-type: none;
  margin: 10px 0;
  font-size: 9pt;
  }
.commentlist li, .trackback li {
  margin: 10px 0 15px 0;
  padding: 10px;
  background: #080808;
  border: 1px solid #040404;
  list-style-type: none;
  }
.commentlist li.alt {
  background: #000;
  border: 1px solid #020202;
  border: none;
  margin-top:10px;
  }
.commentlist li.cleared {
  background: transparent;
  border: none;
  }
.commentlist a:hover {
  color: #eee;
  }
.commentlist a.gravatar {
  float: left;
  margin: 0 15px 10px 0;
  width: 60px;
  }
.commentlist .commentbody {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  }
.commentlist .commentbody p a {
  text-decoration: underline;
  }
.commentlist cite {
  font-size: 10pt;
  font-style: normal;
  color: #ddd;
  }
.commentlist small.commentmetadata a {
  color: #666;
  }
.commentlist p {
  color: #dedede;
  }
#respond {
  clear: both;
  margin-top: 15px;
  }
textarea#comment {
  width: 450px;
  background: #fff;
  color: #111;
  padding: 10px;
  }
#comments #submit {
  margin: 0;
  }
#extrastuff a {color:#999; font-size:0.8em;}
#extrastuff a:hover {color:#6598b8; text-decoration:none;}
#extrastuff #rssleft {float:left; width:250px;}
#extrastuff #trackright {float:right; width:180px; text-align:right;}


/* Welcome section */

#main #welcome {
  margin: 0 0 20px 0;
  padding: 0 0 5px 0;
  background: url(images/bg-trans.png) repeat;
  }
#main #welcome h2 {
  font-size: 14pt;
  font-weight: normal;

  color: #fff;
  letter-spacing: -2px;
  margin: 0 10px;
  padding: 10px 0 3px 0;
  }
#main #welcome p {
  font-size: 9pt;
  color: #eee;  
  margin: 0 10px;
  padding: 6px 0;
  }
#main #welcome a {
  text-decoration: underline;
  color: #ff9933;
  }
#main #welcome a:hover {
  color: #6598b8;
  }
#main #welcome form {
  margin: -5px 0 0 0;
  background: transparent; /* required for IE */
  }
#main #welcome #feedbox {
  border: 1px solid #ccc;
  padding: 2px 1px;
  width: 180px;
  }
.submitbutton {
  margin: -5px 0 0 5px;
  background: #010101;
  color: #fff;
  font-size: 8pt;
  padding: 3px 6px;
  vertical-align: middle;
  border: 1px solid #111;
  }
.submitbutton:hover {
  cursor: pointer;
  background: #050505;
  }


/* Sidebars */
#sidebars {
  margin: 15px 0 0 0;
  float: right;
  width: 340px;
  color: #eee;
  }
#sidebars .sidebarbox {
  background: url(images/bg-trans.png) repeat;
  padding: 8px 15px;
  }

#sidebar_full {
  padding: 0;
  margin: 0;
  }

#sidebar_left {
  float: left;
  width: 160px;
  }

#sidebar_right {
  float: right;
  width: 160px;
  }

#sidebars h2 {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0 0 8px 0;
  font-weight: normal;
  font-size: 11pt;
  color: #fff;
  letter-spacing: -1px;
  }

#sidebars table {
  width: 130px;
  }

#sidebars ul {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0 0 5px 0;
  }

#sidebars li {
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  list-style: none;
  font-size: 9pt;
  }

#sidebars li ul {
  padding: 0;
  }

#sidebars ul ul li {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 2px 2px 2px 16px;
  color: #eee;
  background: url(images/bullet.gif) left 8px no-repeat;
  line-height: 17px; /* Required for cross-browser consistency; cross-browser defaults vary. */
  }

#sidebars a {
  display: inline;
  color: #eee;
  }
#sidebars a:hover {
  color: #6598b8;
  text-decoration: underline;
  }

#sidebars p {
  padding: 2px 0;
  font-size: 9pt;
  color: #eee;
  }

#tag_cloud a {
  display: inline;
  }

#sidebars ul.children li {border-bottom:none;}
#sidebars ul.children {margin-bottom:0;}



/* Before footer */

#morefoot {
  background: #000 url(images/bggrad.jpg) top left repeat-x;
  border: 1px solid #070707;
  padding: 15px;
  color: #dfdfdf;
  margin: 0 0 10px 0;
  }
#morefoot p {
  margin: 5px 0;
  padding: 5px 0;
  }
#morefoot ul {
  list-style-type: none;
  margin-top: 5px;
  }
#morefoot ul li, #morefoot p {
  font-size: 9pt;
  }
#morefoot a {
  text-decoration: underline;
  color: #ddd;
  }
#morefoot a:hover {
  text-decoration: underline;
  color: #6598b8;
  }
#morefoot h3 {
  font-size: 12pt;
  font-weight: normal;
  color: #dfdfdf;
  letter-spacing: -1px;
  border-bottom: 1px dotted #444;
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0 0 2px 0;
  }
#morefoot #searchbox {
  padding: 1px;
  width: 180px;
  }
#morefoot .col1 {
  float: left;
  width: 340px;
  }
#morefoot .col2 {
  margin: 0 25px;
  }
#morefoot .col2, #morefoot .col3 {
  float: left;
  width: 260px;
  }
#morefoot li {
  padding-left: 20px;
  margin-bottom: 5px;
  background: url(images/more.gif) left 2px no-repeat;
  line-height: 17px; /* Required for cross-browser consistency; cross-browser defaults vary. */
  }


/* footer*/
#footer {
  clear: both;
  background: #000;
  border: 1px solid #070707;
  padding: 15px 15px 10px 15px;
  }
#footer p {
  font-size: 9pt;
  color: #bbb;
  padding: 0;
  }
#footer a {
  color: #bbb;
  text-decoration:none;
  }
#footer a:hover {
  color: #fff;
  }
#footerleft {
  float: left;
  width: 500px;
  }
#footerright {
  float: right;
  width: 300px;
  text-align: right;
  }



/* Misc */

.highlight {
  color: #222;
  font-weight: bold;
  }

.cleared {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  clear: both;
  }

.alignleft {
  float: left;
  margin: 10px 15px 5px 0;
  }
.alignright {
  float: right;
  margin: 10px 0 5px 15px;
  }
.aligncenter,
div.aligncenter {
  margin: 10px auto;
  text-align: center;
  display: block;
  }

img.alignleft {
  float: left;
  margin: 10px 15px 5px 0;
  }
img.alignright {
  float: right;
  margin: 10px 0 5px 15px;
  }
img.aligncenter {
  margin: 10px auto;
  text-align: center;
  display: block;
  }

.wp-caption {
  border: 1px solid #ddd;
  text-align: center;
  background-color: #f3f3f3;
  padding-top: 4px;

  /* optional rounded corners for browsers that support it */
  -moz-border-radius: 3px;
  -khtml-border-radius: 3px;
  -webkit-border-radius: 3px;
  border-radius: 3px;
  }

.wp-caption img {
  margin: 0;
  padding: 0;
  border: none;
  }

.wp-caption p.wp-caption-text {
  font-size: 11px;
  line-height: 17px;
  padding: 0 4px 5px;
  margin: 0;
  color: #111;
  }
#reg-form .formleft { background: none !important; 
color: #fff;}

#account-form { background: none !important; 
color: #fff;}