Custom HTML Markup Class For usergroup

[kronnos]

I tried to create a new class for usergroup html markup, everything seems to work except hovering effects. Any ideas?

This is what i added to CSS sheet:

.vip
{
color:green;
font-weight:bold;
font-family: Arial;
font-size: 120%;
text-decoration: underline;
}
.vip a:hover, .vip a:active, .vip_ahover
{
color: black;
text-decoration: underline;
}

This is what I added to the vip usergroup for HTML markup:

<span class="vip"> </span>