Cannot Change Link Colors in CSS

[amandavz]

Hi Everyone...

I seem to be having a problem with getting the links on a site I am working on to change. I had a different template and managed to get the links to change from blue to purple (don't remember how) but now we have just changed the template again and I REALLY need to figure out why I cannot seem to override the css file to show the proper colors.

Any help about what I might be overlooking would be most appreciated. The proper colors are already listed in the css file, it just keeps showing with purple links.

Thanks. :)

[twitchtoo]

Need to see the site to fix the CSS... can you post/PM a link?

[amandavz]

Oh...I'm sorry...
http://metimemelts.com/

[twitchtoo]

When I hide this colour, your left nav links turn blue...

a:link, #navEZPagesTOC ul li a {
/* color: rgb(255, 255, 255); */
}

Your a:hover is pink.

[amandavz]

I'm not sure what that means. What am I suppose to do then?

[twitchtoo]

It looks like you are using the classic template css:
includes/templates/classic/css/stylesheet.css

around line 21
change this:
a:link, #navEZPagesTOC ul li a {
color: #ffffff;
}

to this:
a:link, #navEZPagesTOC ul li a {
color: #000;
}

[amandavz]

Okay...I tried that and it does not appear to be the problem. I tried it with and without the text decoration and have refreshed and cleared my cache. The hover should in face be pink, the links in the brown areas should be white and the links in the white areas should be brown.

Do you think I would be better to start with a fresh css file?

[twitchtoo]

Split the site wide a links from the navigation ez pages in your CSS...

a:link {
color: #663300;
}

#navEZPagesTOC ul li a {
color: #FFFFFF;
}

[amandavz]

I did that and I appreciate you showing me the split but I am still seeing purple links. Are you?

[twitchtoo]

It's 1am... I'm seeing snow falling... ;)

Your a:visited links are remmed out:

change this...
a:visited {
/*color: #724328;*/
text-decoration: none;
}

to this...
a:visited {
color: #724328;
text-decoration: none;
}

Then add a:visited to the ez pages with the colour of your choice.