Specific style for link in specified row using CSS

Posted this in the MM Dreamweaver group also, but then found this newsgroup,
in which I hope someone knows the answer

What I'd like to do is define a specific style for a link that is in a
specific row. This works, but has a drawback:

tr.homeLatestNews a.newsLink {
font-weight: bold;
display: block;
}

but then a would have to assign a class "newsLink" to the link every time. I
also tried:

tr.homeLatestNews a {
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
display:block;
}

Italic and block is displayed, but not bold. Using:

tr.homeLatestNews a:link {
font-weight: bold;
font-style: italic;
display:block;
}

Nothing is displayed at all. Funny thing is that I can preview it in
Dreamweaver (MX2004) but it fails to show completely in IE6 (On winxp) This
is the HTML:

<table width="707" border="1" cellspacing="4" cellpadding="0"
bgcolor="#D5DCE6">
<tr bgcolor="D8DEE6" class="homeLatestNews">
<td width="50%" bgcolor="#D3DBE7" align="LEFT"
valign="TOP"><p><span class="latestNewsHeader">Volop ...workshops... <a
href="#" target="_top">Lees verder</a></p></td>
</tr>
</table>

BTW: this is actually the my first attempt at taking CSS a lot further than
I did sofar. With the help of the great book by Eric Meyer I can get pretty
far. but this is confusing me ;-)

Thanks for your help.

John
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Hmm

#homeLatestNews a {
font-weight: bold;
display: inline;
}

Seems to work in IE6, but I still wonder why my previous setup wouldn't
work. Other thatn that: use

#homeLatestNews a:link {
font-weight: bold;
display: inline;
}

and it stops working again. Really puzzled.
John

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Not entirely unlogical as there's a <p> inside the td, this also works:

tr.homeLatestNews p a {
font-weight: bold;
display: inline;
}

But again:

tr.homeLatestNews p a:link {
font-weight: bold;
display: inline;
}

Doesn't. BUT ;-)

tr.homeLatestNews p a:visited {
font-weight: bold;
display: inline;
}
tr.homeLatestNews p a:hover {
font-weight: bold;
display: inline;
}

and

tr.homeLatestNews p a:active {
font-weight: bold;
display: inline;
}


ALL work (even if the 'p' is left out); something I am missing about the
whole a:link thing??

John

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"Laiverd.COM" <share_your_knowledge (AT) someserver (DOT) com> writes:

tr.homeLatestNews p a:link {
Doesn't. BUT ;-)

tr.homeLatestNews p a:visited {
tr.homeLatestNews p a:hover {
and
tr.homeLatestNews p a:active {

ALL work (even if the 'p' is left out); something I am missing about the
whole a:link thing??

:link means _unvisited_ links.

So quite often you need to either define for 'a' without :anything or
define for all of them.

This is probably what you're missing, but since you haven't provided a
link to a page demonstrating the problem, it's hard to do more than
make vague guesses.

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Chris

Thanks for thinking with me Chris. In the meantime I was able to solve the
problem. Actually there was no problem,so it turned out; but the style was
just not nociteably visible because the page was visited before ;-) and no
styles for visited etc. were yet created. Typical case of 'the answer is
right in front of you ;-)'.

John

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