Can I use a style to only a selection of <a>-hovers not the hole page?

I like to have a small menu where the <a> items have a blue background
on hover like normal window-menu's.
Like this:
<tr onmouseover="style.background='#0000ff';"
onmouseout="style.background='#ffffff';">
<td><a>Menu item 1</a></td>
</tr>

But I don't like to repeat the onmouse...
Is there no way to use a stylesheet where only a selection of cells or
links have this kind of blue background?

Michel wrote:

I like to have a small menu where the <a> items have a blue background
on hover like normal window-menu's.

http://css.maxdesign.com.au/listamatic/

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Michel wrote:

I like to have a small menu where the <a> items have a blue background
on hover like normal window-menu's.
Like this:
tr onmouseover="style.background='#0000ff';"
onmouseout="style.background='#ffffff';"
td><a>Menu item 1</a></td
/tr

But I don't like to repeat the onmouse...
Is there no way to use a stylesheet where only a selection of cells or
links have this kind of blue background?

Yes:

1) Enclose the menu items in a <div> with id or class and use CSS selectors

<div id="menu">
<a ...>blah</a>
</div>

#menu a:hover {...}

2) Apply a class to each <a> element.

<a class="menu" ...>blah</a>

a.menu:hover {...}

Hope that helps. See my site for an example - note how the header, menu
and content links behave differently; and how the internal and external
content links are also different.

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