links not showing up as they should

[underestimated]

Hi all,

got a bit of a problem with my links not "taking the style" of my css doc

its just using the default link colours in IE

heres my css:

body {
 
text-align: center;
color: #555753; 
background: #E09A0F;
a:link { 
font-weight: bold; 
text-decoration: none; 
color: #000000;
padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px;
}
a:visited { 
font-weight: bold; 
text-decoration: none; 
color: #DDDDDD;
padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px;
}
a:hover, a:active { 
text-decoration: underline; 
color: #000000;
padding: 0px 5px 0px 5px;
}

im linking the css doc like this

<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="latestarticles.css">

i cant see anything wrong with my code :\

any ideas?

help would be much appreciated :)

Thanks

Ue

[encyclo]

You're missing a closing bracket "}" after your body styles. Is this because of the cut-and-paste, or is it like that in your file? If the latter, that may well be what's causing the problem.

Does the CSS file validate?

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[underestimated]

Thank encyclo,
it was the closing { bracket
dont know how i missed such an obvious mistake lol :)

thanks again

Ue