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override link style inside an html div

I have a div in which I'd like to override my global link style. I have two link styles, one global, one specific. Here the code:

A:link {text-decoration: none; color: #FF0000;}
A:visited {text-decoration: none; color: #FF0000;}
A:hover {text-decoration: none; color: #FF0000;}
A:active {text-decoration: none; color: #FF0000;}

#macrosectiontext
{
    position:relative;
    font:Arial, sans-serif;
    text-align:center;
    font-size:50px;
    font-style: bold;
    margin-top:245px;
    opacity: 0.6;
    background-color:transparent;
}

#macrosectiontext A:link {text-decoration: none; color: #000000;}
#macrosectiontext A:visited {text-decoration: none; color: #FFFFFF;}
#macrosectiontext A:hover {text-decoration: none; color: #FFFFFF;}
#macrosectiontext A:active {text-decoration: none; color: #FFFFFF;}

and I use the div like this:

<div id="macrosectiontext"><a href="www.google.it">bla bla bla</a></div>

however it seems that it doesn't work. The div still inherits the global link style.

Solution

    1. In The css I would not use the id "#macrosectiontext a:link..." for the link code I would use a class ".macrosectiontext"

    2. use a lower case "a" instead of a Cap "A" in the link style

    3. If you using the style only a few times you can use a span tag around the link and then call to your style from the span tag in stead of the div.