Link / Box colours

[Blue!]

The names of categories are links, and so when adjusting the CSS to change the colour of the names of the categories I should change the colour of a: link.
However, I do not want the names of the categories, or any links in the sideboxes for that matter, to be the sam colour as the normal links. This is because the sideboxes have a different coloured background to the rest of the page.
Is there anyway to specify that links within the side boxes should be a certain colour, as opposed to drawing its colour from a:link?

[Gerard]

Can you post the URL ?

Gerard

[Blue!]

http://www.zen-templates.thestudenthouse.co.uk/

Don't be scared off by the gaudy template lol.

If I can resolve this it will help a lot in some of the other templates I'm working on

[Blue!]

As you can see, I would rather have the links in the left column a lighter shade as they are on a dark background, but I want links outside the left colum dark, as they are on a white background. :)

BTW, is the template loading terribly slowly for you, or is it just my computer?

[seethrou]

The following css code only for reference and as a starting point.
Just cut and paste from my test template.
Please play and modify for yourself.

/* categories box parent and child categories and extra links */
A.category-top {
height: 1%;
background: #FFFFEE;
background-image: url(../images/category_top.png);
border-bottom: 1px solid #F4F4F4;
border-top: 1px solid #F4F4F4;
color: #333333;
line-height: 1.8em;
padding:0 0 0 0.4em;
}

A.category-links {
background: #E4FFDD;
background-image: url(../images/category-links.png);
border-bottom: 1px solid #F4F4F4;
border-top: 1px solid #F4F4F4;
color: #333333;
line-height: 1.8em;
padding: 0 0 0 0.4em;
}

A.category-subs, A.category-products {
background: #F0F8FF;
border-bottom: 1px solid #F4F4F4;
border-top: 1px solid #F4F4F4;
color: #333333;
line-height: 1.8em;
padding: 0 0 0 0px;
}

.category-subs-parent {
color: blue;
}

.category-subs-selected {
color: #CC6666;
}

a:hover.category-top, a:hover.category-subs, a:hover.category-products, a:hover.category-links {
background: #FFE6CC;
color: Black;
}

[Blue!]

Okay, sorry to be a pain, but I tried using the same technique to do the same for the footer link:

a.footer {
color: #ffffff;
}

a.footerbottom {
color: #ffffff;
}

a.footertop {
color: #ffffff;
}

but it didn't seem to work

And try as I might I can't see where to do the same to the search link

But the category menu is now looking much better