thead, tcat <a> CSS placement?

[petteyg359]

I have a non-collapsing thead and several collapsing tcat under it. They are in a custom php file, which stores all its output to a variable, which is output by a custom template. I'm trying to put CSS for the tcat header links (I have both the right-floating image and the text header linked, two seperate links) so that they aren't underlined, and don't change color or decoration on hover/active/visted.

A:link {text-decoration: none; color: #c0c000;}
A:visited {text-decoration: none; color: #c0c000;}
A:active {text-decoration: none; color: #c0c000;}
A:hover {text-decoration: none; color: #c0c000;}

I've tried placing the CSS in style= in the <a> tag in the PHP itself, and in tr/td, table header, and "additional css" sections in the style section of control panel. None seem to work.

PHP Code:

$apidata[$corp[$i]] .= '<a href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse(\'359_eveit_'.$clbl.'\')">';
$apidata[$corp[$i]] .= $eveitdata[$corp[$i]][$j]['charactername'].'</a>: '; 


If this is the wrong section, then move it to programming, but IMHO CSS = Design