CSS - INLINE change to <A> to affect link, visited and hover properties???

[themountainviewguy]

Anyone know how to change the default properties of a link as you would in a style sheet, but in the INLINE code ... here is what I want to do, sort of works sometimes, but it is broken:The text of the link.Why doesn't this work when they say you can do it inline?To im_smarticle:You may be smart but you are not answering my question, I know how to do it in in a style sheet, I would like to invoke the properties INLINE ...To immisc:That was what I was thinking but I could not find any documentation to support that, draw a distinction, or explain.I appreciate your efforts, but when I ask or answer a question I would like a full detailed reponse to the questions I asked.Perhaps and example, or a pointer to documentation explaining why I cannot do what I hope to do .. still do not see why, I just think you do not know how to do it.

[Im Smarticle]

When they say inline are you sure they dont mean using an orderd list style inline?Ive never seen it done the way you have it on there...a:link { color:black; text-decoration: none; }a:visited { color:black ; text-decoration:none; }a:hover { color: yellow ; text-decoration: underline;}a:active { color:blue; text-decoration: underline; } The text of the link Try that if that doesnt work try checking spacing and stuff alsi

[vrushali k]

iammisc answered it right. And i'll explain you why it wont work inline for a tag. When you are defining a style sheet inline, you can apply it to a tag like but not to the different states of any particular tag. tag is unique tag, which offers states like active state, visisted state, over state and normal state. Other tags do not have any behaviour like tag. So, you can define inline style sheet for tag but only for default or normal state. If you want to define styles for other states, you can look pagelevel CSS or external CSS.