CSS anyone? set font property of an <LI> tag

[meobius]

i've got the following bit of code

div#navbar li {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
color:#6384B0;
}

div#navbar a {
display:block;
padding:0 6px;
text-decoration:none;
color:#FFFFFF;
}
div#navbar a:hover {
background-color:#FFFFFF;
color:#6384B0;
}

The problem is all the text formating that i put in the LI style is completely ignored, e from what i know of css, the children inherit the value of the parent, so by setting the values for li, since a is decended from the li tag, it should inherit the properties.Even if i remove the div#navbar a {} style, the text styling is completely ignored (in regards to a link, it goes back to it's browser default)

a sample of html
<div id="navbar"><ul><li><a href"#"> some random link</a></li></ul>
it's actually is a fair bit more complex, but this defines the basics.

so... is it just me or does text formating(or link formating) do nothing?
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What exactly are you attempting to do? There are limits to what most browsers will handle, as far as formatting.
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