Hyperlink & hovering problem with my div tag and text.

[Zeus]

Good day all, I hope that you could help me with a problem that I'm experiencing in Dreamweaver CS6. I'm at the mark up stage at this point and and am trying to create a hyperlink but all of this this has been to no avail at this point and time. I can't seem to get the hand cursor and rollover links color on my home. What could I be doing wrong here...here's my code:

<div id="home"><a href="#">home</a></div>

#mainContent #home {
	background-color: rgba(0,0,0,0.5);
	height: 16px;
	width: 48px;
	margin-top: 3px;
	position: absolute;
	z-index: -2;
	left: 84px;
	top: 309px;
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 9px;
	font-weight: bold;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	color: rgba(255,255,255,1);
	line-height: 16px;
	text-align: center;
	border-radius: 10px;
}

[Rabbit]

If you want a different style for when you "rollover" the link, more commonly known as hover, you have to use the hover pseudoclass to apply a new style.

[Zeus]

I'm a novice in HTML5 and CSS3, could you tell how I could achieve this? Most of my other hyper links (all except for one more to this one) work fine so do their hover effects, I set their hover effect in dreamweaver cs6 by pressed ctrl+j, under category I headed to links (css)and set my rollover link color therein to yellow. Like I said that for the most part they work out fine but for some reason they not working here and I don't know why.

Here's an example of another div where i'm experiencing problems. Here I get the hand cursor but the yellow rollover color doesn't appear?

<h1><a href="#">Terms of Use</a> | <a href="#">Privacy Policy</a> | <a href="#">Advertise With Us</a></h1>

#footer #mainColumns #subscription h1 a {
	color: rgba(255,255,255,1);
	font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	font-size: 11px;
	font-weight: bold;
}

[Rabbit]

Like I said earlier, you need to use the hover class.

a:hover { color:yellow; }

[martin631775]

here in 1 problem
In #home u have given z-index=-2 thats why its not working so remove it after that ancor properties will automatically work...
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