this isnt a question, i just thought id share how to do this nifty trick the real way. i thought it could only be done with border-bottom, but i was wrong...

<style>
<!--
a:link{
color:#000000;
text-decoration:none;
}
a:hover{
color:#FF0000;
text-decoration:underline;
}
.coolLink{
color:#000000;
}
-->
</style>

<a href="#void"><font class="coolLink">Cool Link</font></a>

actually i think i'd take out the <font> tags completely...

I agree, dont forget <font> tags are a depreciated html element. In other words they are becoming obsolete and may not be recognized by future browsers.

However since their is tons and tons of pages of code that do already use these "depreciated html elements" it is highly unlikely that they will ever not be recognized. So every once and awhile it is ok to use such tags, just dont make a habbit of it.

i used the font tags because thats the only way it works for me.... if you dont, the 'a' and 'a:hover' styles take over and the link acts like it would without the '.coolLink' style. im not that css savvy though, i could be very wrong.

if you only use the a:link, a:hover, a:visited and a:active .... and leave out the coollink ... they don't work?
and it seems to me a:link and cooling have nothing different from eachother ....

try this for your css

	.Y:link, .Y:visited
   	{
   	font-family: tahoma;
   	color: yellow;
   	text-decoration: underline;
   	font-size: 100%;
   	}
   	.Y:hover
   	{
   	color: blue;
   	font-size: 100%;
   	text-decoration: none;
   	}
   	
   	.Y:active
   	{
   	color: yellow;
   	font-size: 100%;
   	text-decoration: none;
   	}

then in your html use this

<a class="Y" href="#">CoolLink</a>

and modify the css till you get what you like then to make a diffrent link just change the class...

here is a quick demo

View the CSS

i dont think you understood what i meant... im not trying to make a hover link, im trying to make a hover link that has a different colored underline from the font itself. i just thought it was nifty that it could be done without border-bottom. sorry, i get easily excited.

oooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooh my bad I see....sorry

an example would have cleared things up