Question : CSS style sheet issue with IE8

Can someone explain to me why the a: link section does not work in IE8 but does work in Firefox

<style type="text/css">
a:link {
text-decoration:none;
font-size: 17px;
font-weight: bold;
font-family:sans-serif;
COLOR: #7E6C40;
}
a:visited {
COLOR: #7E6C40;
}
a:hover {
COLOR: #7E6C40;
}
a:active {
COLOR: #7E6C40;
}
</style>

This isn't an actual style sheet, but part of my page source code - I don't know if that matters or not....

Answer : CSS style sheet issue with IE8

You need to put all that in a generic 'a' style for it to affect the rest.

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<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8" />
<title>Untitled Document</title>


<style type="text/css">
a {
text-decoration:none;
font-size: 17px;
font-weight: bold;
font-family:sans-serif;
COLOR: #7E6C40;
}
a:link {
COLOR: #7E6C40;
}
a:visited {
COLOR: #7E6C40;
}
a:hover {
COLOR: #7E6C40;
}
a:active {
COLOR: #7E6C40;
}
  </style>
  
  
</head>

<body>

<a href="#">Hello</a>
</body>
</html>