I'm having a fight with my css. I can't seem to get my background to show up. here is my code, any help would be great.




<style type="text/css">

A:link
{ text-decoration:underline overline; color:00cc00}
A:visited
{ text-decoration: underline; color:00cc00 }
A:active
{ text-decoration: underline overline; color:006600 }
A:hover
{ text-decoration: line-through; color:006600;

background-color:ffff00;

cursor:w-resize }

body
{ background-image:http://www.freewebs.com/mia152/12.jpg;

font-family: Garmond;
color: 006600 ;
letter-spacing: 1pt;
font-weight:lighter;
font-size:x-small;

scrollbar-face-color : #000000;
scrollbar-highlight-color : #000000;
scrollbar-3dlight-color : #000000; scrollbar-shadow-color : #000000;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color : #000000; scrollbar-track-color : #000000;
scrollbar-arrow-color : #000000 }

-->
</style>

Your coding is just messy. Remember to put number signs (#) infront of every color code.

<style type="text/css">
<!--
A:link
{ text-decoration:underline overline; color:"#00cc00"}
A:visited
{ text-decoration: underline; color:"#00cc00"}
A:active
{ text-decoration: underline overline; color:"#006600"}
A:hover
{ text-decoration: line-through; color:"#006600";background-color:#ffff00; cursor:w-resize;}
-->

<!--BODY {
background-image: url(http://www.freewebs.com/mia152/12.jpg);
font-family: Garmond;
color: #006600 ;
letter-spacing: 1pt;
font-weight:lighter;
font-size:x-small;
-->

<!--body {
scrollbar-face-color : #000000;
scrollbar-highlight-color : #000000;
scrollbar-3dlight-color : #000000; scrollbar-shadow-color: #000000;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color : #000000; scrollbar-track-color: #000000;
scrollbar-arrow-color : #000000 }
-->

</style>


Try that

there should not be quotes around the values and the body properties should be in one shot.
try this please...

<style type="text/css">

a {color:#00cc00;}
a:link {text-decoration:underline overline;}
a:visited {text-decoration: underline;}
a:active {text-decoration: underline overline;}
a:hover {text-decoration: line-through; background-color:#ffff00; cursor:w-resize;}

body {
background-image:url(http://www.freewebs.com/mia152/12.jpg);
font-family: Garmond;
color: #006600 ;
letter-spacing: 1pt;
font-weight: lighter;
font-size: x-small;
scrollbar-face-color : #000000;
scrollbar-highlight-color : #000000;
scrollbar-3dlight-color : #000000;
scrollbar-shadow-color : #000000;
scrollbar-darkshadow-color : #000000;
scrollbar-track-color : #000000;
scrollbar-arrow-color : #000000;}
-->
</style>