link color in IE

I am trying to set the color of a link with CSS. But somehow it does
not work in IE (I am using 5.5).

Example code:

<table class="mymenu"><tr><td><a href="http//www.somewhere.com/">A
link</a></td></tr></table>

And in the stylesheet:

table.localmenu a
{ color: #f5fc70;
background-color:red;
}

In Mozilla this will color the link text yellow. In IE it stays the
standard blue.

I would like to know what is causing IE to behave this way and how I
can work around it.

condor wrote:

I am trying to set the color of a link with CSS. But somehow it does
not work in IE (I am using 5.5).

Example code:

table class="mymenu"><tr><td><a href="http//www.somewhere.com/">A
link</a></td></tr></table

And in the stylesheet:

table.localmenu a
{ color: #f5fc70;
background-color:red;
}

I doubt that will work in any browser, since 'localmenu' is not quite
the same as 'mymenu'...

In Mozilla this will color the link text yellow. In IE it stays the
standard blue.

Maybe you have more stylerules for <a> elements elsewhere in the
stylesheet?

You have an online example?
I can't reproduce your problem in my IE5.5.

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Els schreef:

condor wrote:

I am trying to set the color of a link with CSS. But somehow it does
not work in IE (I am using 5.5).

Example code:

table class="mymenu"><tr><td><a href="http//www.somewhere.com/">A
link</a></td></tr></table

And in the stylesheet:

table.localmenu a
{ color: #f5fc70;
background-color:red;
}

I doubt that will work in any browser, since 'localmenu' is not quite
the same as 'mymenu'...

In Mozilla this will color the link text yellow. In IE it stays the
standard blue.

Oops, typing error when writing the message.

Maybe you have more stylerules for <a> elements elsewhere in the
stylesheet?

Thanks for the suggestion. It helped me solve the problem. I had
forgotten to set a visited link. The new code is
table.localmenu a, table.localmenu a.visited {}