# My div in firefox takes a:hover and works but won't take a:link?

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**Created:** [March 8, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-div-in-firefox-takes-a-hover-and-works-but-wont-take-a-link/254125 "2008-03-08T06:27:10Z")\
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**Author:** ![Flash\_Man1](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/8797f3/32.png) [@Flash\_Man1](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/Flash_Man1)\
**Post date:** [March 8, 2008, 6:27am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/my-div-in-firefox-takes-a-hover-and-works-but-wont-take-a-link/254125/1 "2008-03-08T06:27:10Z")

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Hey all,

I have 2 divs one for my content and one for my footer.  
In each of these divs i apply different a:link and a:hover colours.

This is getting through on my footer div and working correctly but on my content div only the a:link, a:active, a:visited are still taking the footer contents colours??

Why wouldn’t this be getting my new colours???

Cheers,  
😃

Any ideas why this is only happening in Firefox it works fine in IE7