Why won't my visited link have a background color?

Question

It seems that a:visited won\'t work in showing background color on my links.

http://jsfiddle.net/davestein/D2srA/

What super simple thing am I missing?

Answer 1

try a) setting a default background color (like #fff) and b)removing !important, as shown here:

http://jsfiddle.net/D2srA/10/