CSS - Is This Possible W/ Css? Changing Color Of A Link Inside Cell When I Mouseover Cell

Hey
i got some cells in a table which hold links.
How can i make only the links inside these cells a different color?

This is the class i use on the table cells:
css Code:
Original - css Code .selectedContactRow{ background-color: white; color: black; }

  

  


 .selectedContactRow{


     background-color: white;


     color: black;


 } 

I only know how to change the link colors in general.
css Code:
Original - css Code a:link{color: red;} a:hover{color: red;} etc.

  

  


 a:link{color: red;}


 a:hover{color: red;}


 etc. 

thanks in advance.

I have a table that is populated using Spry. For some of the users, the table is showing its' borders in white when there is no data in the cell and for other users (like me) it's showing its' borders in black like expected. This is occurring in IE8 for the user. I have IE8 as well.

Here is a setup of my table
Code:

<div id="Content">
        <p class='instructions'>Click a column header to sort the table.</p>
        <div spry:region="jdmba">
          <div spry:state="loading" class="loading">Please wait while alumni data loads&hellip;</div>
          <table class="spry" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
            <tr>
              <th scope="col" width="108px" class="sortable" spry:sort="last" id="last">Last Name</th>
              <th scope="col" width="106px" class="sortable" spry:sort="first" id="first">First Name</th>
              <th scope="col" width="269px" class="sortable" spry:sort="account" id="account">Company</th>
              <th scope="col" width="66px" class="sortable" spry:sort="state" id="state">State</th>
              <th scope="col" width="82px" class="sortable" spry:sort="hls_year" id="hls_year">JD</th>
              <th scope="col" width="82px" class="sortable" spry:sort="hbs_year" id="hbs_year">MBA</th>
            </tr>
          </table>
          <div class="Overload">
            <table class="spry" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0">
              <tr spry:repeat="jdmba" spry:setrow="jdmba" spry:odd="odd" spry:even="even" spry:hover="hover" >
                <td width="108px">{last}</td>
                <td width="106px">{first}</td>
                <td width="269px">{account}</td>
                <td width="66px">{state}</td>
                <td width="82px">{hls_year}</td>
                <td width="82px">{hbs_year}</td>
              </tr>
            </table>
          </div>
        </div>

Here is my CSS file
Code:

a:link {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:visited {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:hover {
	text-decoration: none;
}
a:active {
	text-decoration: none;
}
#News a:link {
	color: #00F;
}
#News a:hover {
	color: #00F;
	text-decoration: underline;
}




body {
	background: #000 repeat;
}




#wrap {
	background: #000;
	width: 900px;
	border: thick solid #9C0029;
	float: left;
	height: auto;
	padding: 0px 0px 1em;
	margin-top: 2%;
	margin-left: 10%;
}
#footer {
	font: bold small/50px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #FFF;
	background: #9C0029;
	text-align: center;
	height: 50px;
	width: 850px;
	margin-left: 25px;
}

#Header {
	background: #8F001C url(../images/banner.jpg) no-repeat center center;
	width: 850px;
	height: 150px;
	margin-top: 20px;
	margin-right: 20px;
	margin-left: 25px;
}
h1 {
	font: normal 18px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	color: #000;
	text-align: left;
}
h2 {
	font: small Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	color: #333;
	text-align: justify;
}
h3 {
	font: normal medium "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	color: #FFF;
}
h4 {
	font-size: small;
	color: #333;
	text-align: left;
}
.banners {
	background: #FFF0B2;
	width: auto;
	height: auto;
	font: 18px Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
	padding-top: .5em;
	padding-bottom: .5em;
	text-indent: 10px;
}
.Content {
	font: 14px/normal Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	text-align: justify;
	display: block;
	padding: 2em 3em 3em;
}
.Content a:link {
	color: #00F;
}
.Content a:hover {
	color: #00F;
	text-decoration: underline;
}
.Content a:visited {
	color: #00F;
}

#inner_body {
	background: #FFF;
	height: auto;
	width: 800px;
	margin-top: 0px;
	margin-left: 50px;
	padding-top: 0.5em;
	padding-bottom: .5em;
}
#inner_border {
	margin: 0em auto auto;
	border: thin solid #8E887C;
	width: 775px;
	padding: 1em 0em 0em;
}
#nav_bar {
	height: 3em;
	width: 100%;
	margin-left: 0%;
	text-align: center;
}


#Content {
	height: auto;
	width: 95%;
	padding: 0em 0% 5em;
	margin: 2.5% 2.55% 2%;
	text-align: left;
	font-family: Verdana;
}
#nav {
	height: auto;
	width: 20em;
}

#News {
	margin-left: 2px;
	height: 30%;
	background: #FFF0B2;
	padding: 3%;
}
#News a:visited {
	color: #00F;
}

.Overload
{
	height: 208px;
	overflow: auto;
}

.odd { background-color: #E8E8E8; }
.even { background-color: #E8E8E8;}
.hover { background-color: #FFC;}
table.spry {
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height:20px;
	cursor: pointer;
}

.instructions {
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-weight:bold;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height:20px;
	cursor: pointer;
	margin-bottom:8px;
}

.loading {
	font-family: Verdana;
	font-weight:bold;
	font-size: 12px;
	line-height:20px;
	cursor: pointer;
	margin-top:0px;
	margin-bottom:8px;
	color:#900;
}

table.spry th {
	border-left: 1px solid #000000;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
	border-top: 1px solid #000000;
	
	font-family:Verdana;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
}
table.spry td {
	border-left: 1px solid #000000;
	border-bottom: 1px solid #000000;
	
	font-family:Verdana;
	padding: 0px;
	margin: 0px;
}
table.spry th.sortable:hover { cursor: pointer; }
table.spry th.sortable { text-align:left; color:#FFFFFF; background: #8F001C url(../SpryAssets/bg.gif) no-repeat 95% 6px; }
table.spry th.ascending { background: #8F001C url(../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarUpHover.gif) no-repeat 95% 8px;  }
table.spry th.descending { background: #8F001C url(../SpryAssets/SpryMenuBarDownHover.gif) no-repeat 95% 8px; }

I'm only placing borders on the left and bottom so that in my detail cells the borders aren't doubled up. So for example when I have no data for the cell State, the left and bottom border of that cell is white rather than black.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

I'm having some problems with CSS. If you look at the pictures below, the first is a screenshot of what it is supposed to look like. It's how it looks in most browsers. The second one, however, is how it looks in IE 6 on Windows and IE 5 on the Mac. It is wrong.

Correct look Incorrect look

I want to know how to fix this. The little colored boxes are supposed to be squares and have solid borders on them. The shape is off and the borders are missing on the IE version. Also, on the progress bar, there is not supposed to be space between the cells but there is. There is also space between every cell on the page and there is not supposed to be any.

Here is my main CSS:
Code:

	body		{ background-color: #FFFFFF; }
	a		{ text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; }
	a:link		{ color: #003366; background-color: transparent; }
	a:visited	{ color: #003300; background-color: transparent; }
	a:active	{ color: #339933; background-color: transparent; }
	a:hover		{ text-decoration: underline; }
	table		{ border: 1px solid black; border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px;}
	td, th		{ border: 0px solid black; padding: 5px; text-align: center; white-space: nowrap; }
	tr.one		{ background-color: #FFFFFF; }
	tr.two		{ background-color: #DDDDDD; }
	table.squares	{ border: 0px; border-spacing: 1px; width: 50px; height: 10px; }
	td.square	{ border: 1px solid grey; padding: 4px; }
	td.nopadding	{ padding: 0px; }
	.default	{ font-family: Verdana, Geneva, Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 10px; color: #000000; }
	.h1		{ font-size: 200%; font-weight: bold; text-align: center;}
	.h2		{ font-size: 120%; font-weight: bold; }
	.h3		{ font-weight: bold; }
	.step		{ font-size: 150%; font-weight: bold; color: #999999; }

Here is one of the sets of squares:
Code:

<table class="squares">
    <tr>
        <td class="square" style="background-color: #CCCC66"></td>
        <td class="square" style="background-color: #CC9966"></td>
        <td class="square" style="background-color: #990000; border: black"><td>
        <td class="square" style="background-color: #669966"></td>
        <td class="square" style="background-color: #669999"></td>
    </tr>
</table>

And finally, here is one of my progress bars:
Code:

<table style="color: white; width: 100px">
    <tr>
        <td style="padding:0px; text-align: right; padding-right: 5px; background-color:#222244; width:41px"></td>
        <td style="padding:0px; text-align: left; padding-left: 5px; background-color:#666666; width:59px">40.7%</td>
    </tr>
</table>

And in case that code is not enough, here is a link to the full HTML.

According to this CSS test my CSS is not wrong. So does IE just suck? Is there something I can do to make it work in all browsers?

My last question is, should I be using div tags for my boxes and progress bars instead of tables? I couldn't figure out how to make them work with divs so I just went with what I knew. Could someone give me an example of each using divs so I can learn how to make it work?

I have a table with two rows. It has some very basic CSS - borders, padding, etc. In FF and Chrome it works exactly like I expect, but, big surprise, IE7 is causing me some problems. I haven't tested with any other IE versions.

The first table row is a header with a CSS background image and some text. The second row is a basic content row. If I put just one text character in the cell everything is fine. If I put enough text in the cell that it wraps to the second line that makes the second row display about 4-6 pixels WIDER than the top row.

Any ideas? I can send the source if you like, but it's a lot to take in.

Thanks!