[Solved] Problem with formatting a hyperlink using a:hover

A number of points link pseudo states must follow a precise order;

:link
:visited
:focus
:hover
:active

Try removing the :link and all the repeated color declarations you only need state them once for the generic anchor element that will aplly also to the visited text-decoration.

The order of link specifications has tripped me up once or twice. I try to use the "Love, Ha!" mnemonic to remember it.

I will try these suggestions when I get home this evening - Cheers!

Don't forget the Doctype!

Don't worry I hadn't forgot about DOCTYPE, just playing with code at moment whilst I'm learning. Thanks guys got it working. Now next question - I've added vertical lines or bars (whatever you prefer to call them) to break up the text links. But why are they not white?

#navbar {
position: absolute; left: 200px; top: 200px;
width: 800px; height: 22px;
background-color="#009900";
font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: 18px
}
a:visited {color: white; text-decoration: none}
a:hover {text-decoration: underline}
a:active {font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none}

Because there's no style declaration for the bars to be white. Those vertical bars are just regular body text. Only the visited links are supposed to be white (according to the code).

Also, you might want to fix your background-color declaration on #navbar. As it is, it's invalid and doesn't work in FF. It should be like this:

background-color: #009900;


Lastly, you really must add a doctype, even during the initial debug stages. The doctype is essential for telling the browser which of possible methods for rending your page is the correct way. As someone says - "There is no correct way to render a page without a doctype.". (But I've forgotten who says that. Ed House? Seedhouse? Edseed? My apologies to that person.)

Well I've repeatedly said "there is no standard way to render invalid html" in various forms but I don't remember saying it exactly that way. However it's pretty well true so let's pretend I said it. :thumbsup:

Thanks Katie - got it working. And won't forget to include doc type in future.

And we'll pretend I got your name right, too.