Go to hotmail and read a message. The links in the blue boxes ("New", "From", "Date", etc.) all have a blue underline under them. This underline should not be here.

Residual style

I don't think the problem is "Residual-Style". Looks like the inline style is not respecting "text-decoration" property.

Since the problem is related to style sheet, assigning bug to peterl@netscape.com Test Case: <a href="foo.htm"> <font style="color:red; text-decoration:none"> This text is red in color and should not be underlined because the "text-decoration" property is NONE. </font> </a>

As per peter: This is correct behavior. Once a text decoration is turned on, there's no way to turn it off. There's discussion about adding a "text-decoration: no-underline" to CSS3, but that's not real yet. To get the desired effect, put the style="text-decoration:none" on the A tag instead.