Link style on black background

[Paul_Moxie]

Hi Lay Theme Crew,
I have a problem customising my links using custom css. The links are supposed to be white on a black bg and turn italic on hover.
Italic on hover works perfectly fine, but without hovering, the links are still black. '_quellenderfreude' is the slug to the textformat i'm using.
This is the code i'm using at the moment:

This is how it looks in Frontend:

Without mouse hover:

With mouse hover:

You can view on this page:
http://heikoschulz.de/137-2-2-2-2-2-2

I hope you understand my problem. Do you have any solution?
Greets, Paul

[arminunruh]

Hey sorry for the late response!

I guess there is no such thing as "a:link", but just "a"

[Paul_Moxie]

Yey, now its works like a charm! Thanks for helping, it came just in time for the deadline on friday.
Grüße aus Düsseldorf