SOLVED: Nevermind, the links were visited, and the border definition was missing for visited links (as someone pointed out, thanks). As for the color being first place in the border definition, the snippet comes from the IE Developper Toolbar, this is not directly my code. Anyway, thank you guys !
Why does the link in the following snippet does not render underlined with a dashed line, just as expected and as ff would do ?
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML Strict//EN"><META http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=iso-8859-1">
<HTML xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<HEAD><STYLE>
/* Rule 1 of css/style.css */
* {
PADDING-RIGHT: 0px;
PADDING-LEFT: 0px;
PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
MARGIN: 0px;
PADDING-TOP: 0px;
FONT-FAMILY: "trebuchet ms", Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif
}
/* Rule 26 of css/style.css */
#main {
PADDING-RIGHT: 15px;
PADDING-LEFT: 15px;
PADDING-BOTTOM: 15px;
PADDING-TOP: 15px
}
/* Rule 12 of css/style.css */
#page {
BORDER-RIGHT: #555 1px solid;
PADDING-RIGHT: 0px;
BORDER-TOP: #555 1px solid;
PADDING-LEFT: 0px;
BACKGROUND: #fff;
PADDING-BOTTOM: 0px;
MARGIN: 50px auto;
BORDER-LEFT: #555 1px solid;
WIDTH: 752px;
PADDING-TOP: 0px;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #555 1px solid
}
/* Rule 2 of css/style.css */
BODY {
BACKGROUND: url(bg.gif) #ebeeff repeat-y center 50%
}
/* Rule 35 of css/style.css */
#main A:link {
COLOR: #437fda;
BORDER-BOTTOM: #437fda 1px dashed;
TEXT-DECORATION: none
}
</STYLE></HEAD>
<BODY><DIV id="page"><DIV id="main"><TABLE><TBODY><TR><TD>
<A href="http://www.immo-brasseurs.com/coords.php?num=37">Test link </A>
</TD></TR></TBODY></TABLE></DIV></DIV></BODY></HTML>