On my beta website im builind if i create a hyperlink and remove te underlining there is no underlining on ie but there is on firefox. Here is the code

<a href="tutorials/html.html">
   <font color="#0099CC"><span style="text-decoration: none">HTML</span></font></a>

I think you may need to move the style to the <a> tag instead of the having it on the span.

One thing you may want to do that's unrelated since you're already using css is to remove the <font> tag and move the color to the style:

style="text-decoration:none; color:#0099cc"

I would move both styles to the <a> tag or better move the css to an external stylesheet.

the problem with the first idea you sia dis that it changes colour when it has been visited. i have also tried with the css but didnt work so i scrapped the idea

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I have only moved the span part into the <a> tag and it worked thanks
Ryan

The way I usually set something like this up is to have it all in the external stylesheet and then add styles for a, a:hover, a:visited.

If you only want the style applied to this link you can give this link an id and then in the stylesheet have a#yourid, a#yourid:hover, etc. It would probably be better to use a class instead of an id though so you can apply the same styles easily enough to other links you want to look the same.

The CSS will work IF you do it correctly and that means using all the pseudo classes: a:link, a:visited, a:hover, a:active - and it MUST be in that order.
You tell it what colors, font size, text-decoration, everything in those styles.

The <font> tag is dead, deprecated and no longer considered good coding. The <center> tag shares the same fate along with many others.