inline hover and visited?

[terrybarnes]

I'm creating an HTML email and am having to add things inline because gMail doesn't seem to like internal styles! Anyway, is there any way of adding hover and visited effects inline?

I've tried the following but it doesn't seem to work:

<a href="http://www.example.com" style="{color: #2aace2; text-decoration: underline;} :hover {color: #fff; background-color: #2aace2;} :hover {color: #2aace2; text-decoration: underline;}">

Any ideas?

[edited by: swa66 at 9:50 pm (utc) on Nov. 19, 2008]

[swa66]

That syntax is described in a WD (wroking draft) article for CSS3:
[w3.org...]

Browsers should not implement that yet AFAIK.

Javascript will not be enabled there either (or you would have found a security hole big enough to fly a jumbo through)

Even allowing visited to be differently rendered with inline styles would be a possible security hole, so I'd be careful using it if I'd found a solution.

[terrybarnes]

So just stick with the standard text links for emails?