changing link color for just one part of a page

[Frank Carver]

I've been banging my head over this for a few days, and I thought I'd ask the wizards in here.
I currently have a site style where chunks of text are often headed by a dark background bar with white text. The body of the page is mostly black text on a white or light grey background. This works fine until I want a link in the text on the bar. Then it ignores the white text color and uses the regular blue/purple, which looks horrible and illegible. I know how to set the link style color for the whole page, but so far I haven't found a way of setting it just for one part of the page.
Here's what I do at the moment (with excess junk removed):
site.css:

 .block {
  border: solid 2px #526B6B;
 }
 .divider {
  background: #526B6B;
  color: #ffffff;
 }

index.html:

<link rel='stylesheet' type='text/css' href='site.css'/>
<h2>Recent News</h2>
<p align='center'><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='3' class='block'>
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<tr><td colspan='2' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>
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</td></tr>
</table></p>

<p align='center'><table cellspacing='0' cellpadding='3' class='block'>
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<tr><td colspan='2' bgcolor='#eeeeee'>
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</td></tr>
</table></p>

Any suggestions what I can do in the style file to ensure that links in the dark header bars appear white like the regular text?
Many thanks.

[Eric Pascarello]

Read this:
http://xbiz.com/articles/print.php?article_idp=612
Eric

[Frank Carver]

Thanks Eric. That was interesting, but not quite what I wanted. In the end I found another tutorial which pointed out that you can limit style changes to an arbitrary hierarchy of elements using " " (space) as a separator. So I added

.divider a:visited, .divider a:link { color: #ffffff; }

to my style file, and now all links (visited and unvisited) in an area of class "divider" appear as white. I knew there had to be a way.