If I understand you correctly, you want to specify a rule for the hover and visited states of a link within an element that has an id of thsBrowseTerms?
If that is the case, it's a descending selector #thsBrowseTerms :link:hover{} #thsBrowseTerms :visited{} If I'm not understanding your questions correctly, can you be more precise? Sandra Clark ============= http://www.shayna.com Training and Consulting in CSS and Accessibility Team Fusebox -----Original Message----- From: Scott Stewart [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2007 11:41 AM To: CF-Community Subject: 'nother css question Heres the block in question #thsBrowseTerms ol{ list-style: none; padding: 0; margin: 1em 0.5em; float: right; font-size:11px; width: 454px; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; background: url(../images/ths-text-alpha.gif) no-repeat top left; } #thsBrowseTerms ol li{ float: left; text-indent: -99999px; margin: 0; padding: 0; } #thsBrowseTerms ol li a{ display:block; text-align:center; font-weight:bold; text-decoration:none; margin: 0; padding: 0; height: 19px; } How do I express this properly? #thsBrowseTerms a:hover{background-color: blue; border: 0px solid black; filter:alpha(opacity=10); opacity: 0.5;} a:visited{background-color: red; border: 0px solid black; filter:alpha(opacity=10); opacity: 0.5;} -- Scott Stewart ColdFusion Developer SSTWebworks 7241 Jillspring Ct. Springfield, Va. 22152 (703) 220-2835 http://www.sstwebworks.com ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Deploy Web Applications Quickly across the enterprise with ColdFusion MX7 & Flex 2 Free Trial http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJU Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/message.cfm/messageid:235369 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5