brains not working..html help please?

[TraceyHand]

I know it's a simple thing that I'm overlooking but could somebody please help me..!

I'm trying to make a line of text, in my header, display as red.
I thought I had the html right but it's still showing as purple.

Here is the whole header
<font color="#6c579c" Size="+0"><b>Investing in a new set of wheels? Try Before You Buy!</b></font><br><FONT COLOR="RED"><A HREF="http://www.chariotsonhire.co.uk/holiday.htm"><b>CLICK HERE FOR IMPORTANT INFORMATION</b></A></font>

It displays as shown at www.chariotsonhire.co.uk/acatalog

I really need it to be red so it's more "in yur face...read me"-ish!

I can't work out why it's not read, somebody please point out the glaringly obvious? The text it replaced was red but it didn't nhave a hyperlink so I over-wrote the whole second line of the header.

Many thanks
Tracey

[TraceyHand]

by the way, I suspect that my </font></a> at the end were the wrong way round and have now switched them!
Thanks
Tracey

[TraceyHand]

oh..scrap that..I'd already swapped them when I pasted the header anyway..
LOL
Don't mind me...brain's dead, u know!

[Mike Hughes]

I suspect your style sheet has a font definition for <a href=> tags and that overwrites your font definition.

Put the font definition within the <a href=></a> tags and it will take precedence.

i.e. <a href=..><font..>text</font></a>.

Mike

[TraceyHand]

Mike, you're a star!!
That's about the only thing I didn't try!
Typical, huh?
Thanks SO much, that worked a treat (and taught me something too, I suspect that was more "proper" html that I had written in the firts place!)
Regards
Tracey