Stylesheet not making links properly

I've put this in my stylesheet and the links are all correct and it takes it.. but the hover links don't show up, they just stay white with no underline? Any ideas why the rollevers don't work?

.footer a:link { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; }
.footer a:visited: { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; }
.footer a:active: { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; }
.footer a:hover: { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #999999; text-decoration: underline; }

Try this:

.footer a:link { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; }
.footer a:visited: { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; }
.footer a:hover: { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #999999; text-decoration: underline; }
.footer a:active: { font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 11px; font-weight: normal; color: #FFFFFF; text-decoration: none; }

Pseudo-classes on links have to be in a certain order to work properly: Link, Visited, Hover, Active. LoVe HAte is a good mnemonic to remember the order.

There is an order to apply the pseudo elements, Link, Visited, Hover, Active.

A good way to remember it is LoVe HAte..

Mike

Thanks!

That's weird though, I copied it from a tutorial that seemed pretty decent but I guess they have it in the wrong order.

.footer a:active":"

looks like that colon is what was doing it.