A:hover {color:#000000; background:#ffffff; font-weight:bold}
A:link {color:white}
A:visited {color:white}
A:active {color:red}

wats wrong with this coz i put it into my css and on the hover the text wont change color to black on the wight background???

You need to put the hover line lower...

A:link {color:white;}
A:visited {color:white;}
A:active {color:red;}
A:hover {color:#000000; background:#ffffff; font-weight:bold;}

thx that did it it works now, thanks,

i hav anoter question though, why does every thing under the link seems to "bob" dow wen the mouse is over a link then go bak afterwards, is this because of the background?

It's probably because you're bolding the font on hover. Bold text is slightly larger than normal.

oh yeh thanks i forgot about that, thanks again