IE woes: links (migrated from javascript forum)

IE (9,8,7 thru Parallels on a Mac) is not, or only partially, rendering styles on certain links; same behaviour across the versions:

[FONT=”Courier New”]a[href^{^=”javascript”]} {
text-decoration:underline; font-size:inherit; color:white; }
a[href^{^=”javascript”]:hover} {background:#486; }[/FONT]
—neither the underline nor the hover background are rendered, and the color is the same as surrounding text, so the links are not apparent: but they work;

[FONT=”Courier New”]a[href^{^=”http://”],} a[href^{^=”https://”]} {
text-decoration:underline; font-size:inherit; color:#bdbebf;}
a[href^{^=”http://”]:hover,} a[href^{^=”https://”]:hover} {background:#468; }[/FONT]
—the hover background doesn’t work; the links work.

Quirksmode says IE should honour these advanced attribute styles.

This isn’t the only IE problem I’m having, but [URL=”http://www.wavehands.net/changes.htm”]one at a time[/URL]—click on “welcome” to see the problem.

Cheers.

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