Hi, I have two identical elements, one is in my base styles, the other further down the cascade is within my MQ. The MQ has a background-image, the base style (at the top) has no background-image, rather a color. The problem; the base styles which are for mobile are showing both the mobile style and the MQ styles which obviously is not the result I want. I want the base styles to show a simple anchor that is colored, and the MQ to show the :hover effect when one or the other comes into effect. I've added a simple color to the base MQ; doesn't work, if this is a cascading problem, I'd really like to know how to solve ?

Can you post the css? Just sounds like color transfer from the base. A quick test instead of background-color use background: #000 in the base and in the MQ background: url('my.jpg').