CSS Style Question

Hello... Attempting to understand this. I have the following code in the head of my page. The color set to 666666.

My question is: With the color set to #666666, shouldn't any text which I place in my html document show up with with the color 666666? Right now. It just shows black.

{ font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: small;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
color: #00FFFF;
text-decoration: none}

Thanks for any help given.

-Blurrred-

1- CSS is hiearchical. meaning that if you define the properties for a tag such as BODY and expect to have those same settings work for the TD or P tag, it won't necessarily happen.

2- if that is the exact code that you have on the page, you might consider reading a css howto. You have the properties defined correctly, but you are missing the tag they are supposed to be defining.

Ah...

Thanks for the reply.. I understand... I'm off to webmonkey to read up.. Thanks for the help...

to set common characteristics for all like html tags you can do this to make all body tags carry the following attributes. Or you can replace body with any other html tag like 'p' for example if you want all paragraphs formatted the same:

body { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: small;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
color: #00FFFF;
text-decoration: none}


or if this is for a specific tag and used sparingly try the following. it is called in your HTML as so : <div class=mystyle> or maybe <td class=mystyle>

.mystyle { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: small;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
color: #00FFFF;
text-decoration: none}

or

div.mystyle { font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size: small;
font-style: normal;
line-height: normal;
color: #00FFFF;
text-decoration: none}

Thanks for the help the 'body' is what I needed.. Works great!