# CSS link text color problem

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-link-text-color-problem/264400>\
**Category:** Uncategorized\
**Created:** [June 25, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-link-text-color-problem/264400 "2008-06-25T19:43:33Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 4\
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**Author:** ![jpf566](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@jpf566](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jpf566)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 7:43pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-link-text-color-problem/264400/1 "2008-06-25T19:43:33Z")

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Well…I’m having some trouble with formatting link text using CSS…Im not sure why it isn’t working. I’ve done this before in a different site. The text SHOULD be gray and when you hover over it should turn green…the links are purple instead of gray! But the weird thing is the green hover works… Depending on your browser and OS it looks different… I tried validating the CSS file and got an error. But it didn’t make sence…not to me ☹

My Style Sheet  
[http://sheffield.gomft.com/hfmcc/styles.css](http://sheffield.gomft.com/hfmcc/styles.css)

The Site  
[http://sheffield.gomft.com/hfmcc/index.html](http://sheffield.gomft.com/hfmcc/index.html)

Thanks guys!

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**Author:** ![fasterthanlight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecc23a/32.png) [@fasterthanlight](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/fasterthanlight)\
**Post date:** [June 25, 2008, 7:48pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-link-text-color-problem/264400/2 "2008-06-25T19:48:45Z")

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a:visited {  
color: #808080  
text-decoration: none;  
}

add a ; after #808080

also, fix

```auto

.menutxt {
	color: #0000004;
	font-size: 13px;
	}

```

#0000004 is invalid hex code

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**Author:** ![jpf566](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/ea5d25/32.png) [@jpf566](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/jpf566)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 12:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-link-text-color-problem/264400/3 "2008-06-26T12:39:15Z")

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[QUOTE=fasterthanlight™;2349094]a:visited {  
color: #808080  
text-decoration: none;  
}

add a ; after #808080

also, fix

```auto

.menutxt {
	color: #0000004;
	font-size: 13px;
	}

```

#0000004 is invalid hex code[/QUOTE]

Thank you very much! 😃

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**Author:** ![djheru](https://yyz1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/user_avatar/forum.kirupa.com/djheru/32/3190_2.png) [@djheru](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/djheru)\
**Post date:** [June 26, 2008, 5:00pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/css-link-text-color-problem/264400/4 "2008-06-26T17:00:26Z")

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Also, remember the order must be a:link{}, a:visited{}, a:hover{}, a:active{}