.class:hover not working in firefox? - html

Question

So i have some html:
<a class='clicktext'>...read more!</a>
and i want to give it a :hover animation, as so:
.clicktext{
}
.clicktext:hover{
text-decoration:underline;
}
.clicktext:active{
text-decoration:none;
}
Suffice to say, it does not work in Mozilla Firefox 5, even though it works perfectly well in Chrome and Safari. However, if i change it to
a{
}
a:hover{
text-decoration:underline;
}
a:active{
text-decoration:none;
}
It works perfectly fine in Mozilla Firefox 5! I have not managed to find anything regarding this online.
I could, of course, just change my styles to apply to the a rather than the .clicktext. The problem with that is that it would screw up my conventions, which is (as far as possible) apply all the styles to classes rather than to the tag names. After all, I have many other tags for which i do not want this underline-on-hover thing to appear.
Has anyone bumped into this, and perhaps found a nice solution?
edit: these also do not work
.clicktext a:hover{...}
a .clicktext:hover{...}

Answer 1

I had these kind of problems with Firefox and solved it by adding the tag name to class name:
for example I had this which worked in Chrome but not in Firefox:
.content .sidebar:hover{
background-color: red;
}
and fixed it by making it more specific like this:
div.content div.sidebar:hover{
background-color: red;
}

Answer 2

http://jsfiddle.net/rE8xU/
I do not see the issue, when moused over it does include an underline.
A possible cause of this issue is the level of importance that the class has.
Such as styles that are set by their identification tag will take over any class styles and so forth.
http://htmlhelp.com/reference/css/structure.html
check out cascading order
Lastly, make sure that the css file is properly linked and or embedded
you can use firefox to check as well.

Answer 3

You need to add href="#" to your . the :hover meta tag needs the link to have the href property set.

Answer 4

use <p></p> tag if you are not hyperlinking the text.
<p class='clicktext'>...read more!</p>
then for styling the text.
p.clicktext {
color: #ccc;
}
p.clicktext:hover {
text-decoration:underline;
}
Hope i Helped ;)

Answer 5

There's a big chance that you have a conflict somewhere in your CSS, because the jsfiddle with this exact code works fine in Firefox 5. You might want to check for ID-selectors with the hover-pseudoclass that could possibly overrule this line of styling. Inspect it with firebug to see what css is inherited.

Answer 6

You might be getting this problem for
1: not specifying the class which is clicktext in your case, or.
2: object a is associated with some other class not compatible with clicktext class!
I am saying this because my website
is running perfectly without any problem, in both Chrome and Firefox!
I am using hover to produce an overlay effect! This is what I am doing:
.container{
//your specifications
}
.image{
//your specifications
}
.text{
//your specifications
}
.container:hover .text{
//your specifications
}
I also think that the answer marked as "correct answer" is not correct.

Answer 7

I had same problem, was just not working on Firefox, quick close and restart app and was working again.
Daniel