WANTED: Advice on Simple CSS Links

[kwilliams]

Basically. the basic links for my CSS show up with the default blue. This is the beginning of my site's CSS concerning link properties:
<style type="text/css">
a:link {font-family:arial; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:normal; text-decoration:underline; color:330066; }
a:visited {font-family:arial; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:normal; text-decoration:underline; color:330066; }
a:hover {color:ff0000; text-decoration:none;}
a:active {font-family:arial; font-size:12px; font-style:normal; font-weight:normal; letter-spacing:normal; text-decoration:underline; color:330066; }

I made sure to put the selectors in the W3 suggested order of:
a:link
a:visited
a:hover
a:active

...but something weird happens. When I attach this CSS as a server-side include, it works fine. But when I try to change the SSI to a linked CSS (i.e. <link rel="stylesheet" href="ScriptLibrary/stylesheet.css">), it doens't work properly.

You can see an example of how my CSS works here:
http://www.douglas-county.com/index.asp
And how it doesn't work here:
http://www.douglas-county.com/index2.asp

Any suggestions would be appreciated. Thanks.

[pyro]

You forgot the # before all your colors.

[kwilliams]

Hi pyro,

I tried it with & without the #, but it didn't make a difference in my problem. I'll make sure to add # before my font colors, but this won't solve my problem. Any other suggestions?

KWilliams

[kwilliams]

I'm viewing the 2ns example page in IE6 also, and it shows visited links correctly. But all links that have never been visited by me are in the default blue.

KWilliams

[pyro]

In your external stylesheet, get rid of <style type="text/css"> and </style>.

[kwilliams]

That's a good suggestion, but unfortunately it didn't make a difference. I'm so confused.

KWilliams

[pyro]

By looking at your external stylesheet, it does not appear that you have made either of the two suggestions that I have made. Please try them.

[kwilliams]

I did infact make those changes to the external stylesheet that's shown on http://www.douglas-county.com/index2.asp, but I had referenced stylesheet.css, not stylesheet2.css. When I corrected this, the page worked properly. Thanks for yoru help Pyro, and have a great afternoon.

KWilliams

[pyro]

You are welcome.