Text Decoration not working within DIV

Question

I have the following CSS:

.top-category-item  {
        height: 338px;
        background-color: black;
        position: relative;
        }

.top-category-item-copy {
        width: 100%;
        /* Fallback for web browsers that doesn't support RGBa */
        background: rgb(0, 0, 0);
        /*  RGBa with 0.8 opacity */
        background: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.8);
        bottom: 0px;
        position: absolute;
        padding-left: 5px;
        padding-right: 15px;
        padding-top: 2px;
        padding-bottom: 4px;
        box-sizing:border-box;
        -moz-box-sizing:border-box; /* Firefox */
        -webkit-box-sizing:border-box; /* Safari */
        font-family: Georgia, Times New Roman, serif;
        font-size: 35px;
        line-height: 36px;
        font-weight: bold;
        color: #F1F1F1;
        }

.top-category-item-copy a       {
                text-decoration: none;
                }

And this is my HTML:

    <a href="">
    <div class="top-category-item low-gutter">
    <img src="images/feature-placeholder.jpg" alt="latest-image-placeholder"/ width=100% height=100%>
    <div class="top-category-item-copy">Earlier French Quarter curfew for youths gets mixed reaction.</div>
    </div>
    </a>

I've searched Stack Overflow for solutions to this problem:

• Tried swapping the syntax around a little e.g. .class-name a:link {text-decoration: none;}

• Tried declaring a global a {text-decoration: none;}, this works but it feels like a workaround, not a real solution

Answer 1

In your HTML, top-category-item-copy is a div, with an a as the parent. Your CSS is saying "No text decorations for all a tags within .top-category-item-copy."