Editor Area CSS won't apply to links

I am having the exact same problem - I either don't know how to style the links within the fckeditor content area, or the styles are being overridden somehow.

I have used firebug, and I see that even inline styles are somehow not displaying, so I suspect the latter to be the case.

Does anyone have insight here?

To be clear it's not just the color that won't change - I can't affect the styling of a link at all. Text decoration either.

The stylesheet I am trying to hand over to fckeditor (it works for the other styles I have) is:

body {
font: Takoma;
font-size:12px;
margin:0px;
padding:5px;
background:#FFFFFF;
color: #CCCCCC;
}

a {
text-decoration: none;
color: #123123;
}

This problem does not occur on Safari - I don't have access to IE right now, but I think it's a firefox only problem...

There is a fix to this problem - use the following:

.heading a {
color: #abcabc !important;
}

This took care of all those problems for me