# Creating styles for different a tags

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**Created:** [November 19, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-styles-for-different-a-tags/300342 "2009-11-19T14:06:19Z")\
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**Author:** ![geestring](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e19b73/32.png) [@geestring](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/geestring)\
**Post date:** [November 19, 2009, 2:06pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/creating-styles-for-different-a-tags/300342/1 "2009-11-19T14:06:19Z")

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so im updating this wordpress blog for someone else, and I noticed that there is a style for all \<a\> tags giving the links a background-color: of blue.

ok that’s fine. For the links that I don’t want a blue rollover bg, I just give it its own id so

div#link a:hover{background-color:#FFFFFF}

but it still gives it a bg that matches the website background. It works in firefox, but IE when you rollover the white bg pushes everything below the link slightly.

Is there a way to say apply no background?