hehe. I used to remember how to do this

[play_]

Ok, i have this:

[code]
* a {
    color: #990000;
    text-decoration: none;
    border-bottom: 1px dotted #000000;
}[/code]

and i also have

[code]
.menu a {
    font-size: 11px;
    display: block;
    width: 75px;
    border-right: 1px solid #666666;
    padding: 3px;
    text-align: center;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: #fff;
}[/code]


and on the index page:
[code]
<div class="menu">
            <ul>
                <li><a href="#">Home</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">About</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Portfolio</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Contact</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Links</a></li>
                <li><a href="#">Misc.</a></li>
            </ul>
        </div> <!--/menu -->[/code]


Ok. i think by now you probably know what im going to ask.
* a { is affecting the menu links. Is there a way to make it not overwrite the menu styles? (there should be, i used to know how)

[moberemk]

You actually don't need to use the * a in front of every universal declaration. Just get rid of it.

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You actually don't need to use the * a in front of every universal declaration. Just get rid of it.
[/quote]


Thank you.


::edit::
that didnt solve the problem =()

[eddedwards]

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Thank you.
::edit::
that didnt solve the problem =()
[/quote]

instead of .menu a
try a.menu

i think that might work

[Heero]

Yeah, to follow up.

1) You need to get rid of the unverisal symbol *
2) You need to use a.menu because menu.a doesn't make sense

[nogray]

.menu a will only effect the immediate children (in your case the UL under the div) if you want it to effect the a, you can put it directly under the div tag (without the UL and LI) but the easiest solution will be to give the links a class for themselves like .side_links {...}