Trouble formatting vlink with css! Help!

Greetings all!

My first post!

I am having a heck of a time formatting a visited link with css!

Here is my link CSS code to handle links that is from an external file called 'basic.css'

a:link { font-size:8pt;
line-height:8pt;
text-decoration: none;
font-family:Arial, sans-serif;
color:#717d46;
}

a:visited a:link { font-size:8pt;
line-height:8pt;
font-family:Arial, sans-serif;
color:#717d46;
}

a:hover a:link { font-size:8pt;
line-height:8pt;
font-family:Arial, sans-serif;
color:#717d46;
}

a:active a:link { font-size:8pt;
line-height:8pt;
font-family:Arial, sans-serif;
color:#717d46;
}

Basically I want them to ALWAYS look the same, visited, hovered, or whatever.

And they look just like I have defined! All green and no underline! But low and behold when I click one - it turns PURPLE and UNDERLINED! UGlY!

How do I cancel this! I have been pulling my hair out!

I must be going crazy, but I cant find the code in my page anywhere that defines a purple link! No vlink="" in the body, nothing!

Help?

Thanks!

Nate~

I think you need to try tweaking that css code a little
Try this instead...
a:link { font-size:8pt;
line-height:8pt;
text-decoration: none;
font-family:Arial, sans-serif;
color:#717d46;
}

a:visited { font-size:8pt;
line-height:8pt;
font-family:Arial, sans-serif;
color:#717d46;
}

a:hover { font-size:8pt;
line-height:8pt;
font-family:Arial, sans-serif;
color:#717d46;
}

a:active { font-size:8pt;
line-height:8pt;
font-family:Arial, sans-serif;
color:#717d46;
}

If you wanted to keep the a:link you should separate by a comma.
But this code above should work... that's what I use!

If not we'll need to see a link to the whole site!

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a {
    color: #717d46;
    font: 8pt/8pt arial,sans-serif;
}

Take out the rest and just use the above code.

ooo... even shorter code... Nice!

Or if you REALLY wanted to keep the pseudo-classe, like Lchad said, you need to put a comma to separate them like this

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a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active, {
    color: #717d46;
    font: 8pt/8pt arial,sans-serif;
}

but Ryan's code is much better and much shorter

Wow! Thanks so much! The code seems to work great, and soooo short too!

You guys are great! Many many thanks!

Nate~

No problem