Html email newsletter font tags link help

i'm trying to write an html email newsletter. i've discovered
the only way
it will work is if i use tables and font tags. the only
problem i'm having
right now is that i can't change my link colors. i've tried
css and the body
tags, neither work. the body tag i tried is:
<BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF" text="#000000" LINK="#CCCCCC"
ALINK="#CCCCCC"
vlink="#CCCCCC">
yet the links still appear the default blue and visisted
links are purple.
does anyone know how to change the link colors using font
tags?

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"ryansebiz" <[email protected]> wrote in message
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> inserted it right after the opening <body> tag and
the links are still
> blue and purple. i emailed the html to gmail,
thunderbird and outlook and
> it's the same in all three.
>
> i tried using css (albeit in the head tags) to style the
text and that
> didn't work at all - i had to resort to font tags.
>
> any other ideas on how to get these links to work?
>
> thanks murray.
>
> "Murray *ACE*" <[email protected]>
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>> <body>
>> <style type="text/css">
>> 
>> </style>
>> ...
>> </body>
>>
>>
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>> "ryansebiz" <[email protected]> wrote in
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>> news:[email protected]...
>>> thanks murray for the prompt reply.
>>>
>>> i'm not sure how to put the css between the body
tags without it
>>> appearing as text on the page.
>>>
>>> for example:
>>>
>>> a {color:#CCCCCC}
>>> a: hover {color:#CCCCCC}
>>>
>>> appears as text on the page. is there a special
markup to hide this css
>>> between the body tags?
>>>
>>> "Murray *ACE*"
<[email protected]> wrote in message
>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>> Use CSS, but put it between <body> and
</body>.
>>>>
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>>>> "ryansebiz" <[email protected]>
wrote in message
>>>> news:[email protected]...
>>>>> i'm trying to write an html email
newsletter. i've discovered the only
>>>>> way it will work is if i use tables and
font tags. the only problem
>>>>> i'm having right now is that i can't
change my link colors. i've tried
>>>>> css and the body tags, neither work. the
body tag i tried is:
>>>>>
>>>>> <BODY BGCOLOR="#FFFFFF"
text="#000000" LINK="#CCCCCC" ALINK="#CCCCCC"
>>>>> vlink="#CCCCCC">
>>>>>
>>>>> yet the links still appear the default
blue and visisted links are
>>>>> purple.
>>>>>
>>>>> does anyone know how to change the link
colors using font tags?
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>
>>
>
>

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