HTML Anchor, Disable Style

Question

I have some html anchor link code, and unlike the rest of document I want it to look like it is not a link.

Is there a simple way to disable the style change caused by w

Answer 1

If you don't care about IE, you can attach :not(#exclude) (where exclude is the ID of the link in question) to your link styles:

a:link:not(#exclude), a:visited:not(#exclude) {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: blue;
    cursor: pointer;
}

Otherwise I don't think you can brute-force it the way you describe. You can either use an inline style instead (not recommended) or you can use a special class/ID assigned to that link, whose selector you'd group with body. For example, if you had these styles:

body {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: black;
    cursor: auto;
}

a:link, a:visited {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: blue;
    cursor: pointer;
}

You can simply toss in a more specific selector, that'd match that link, onto the body rule:

body, #exclude {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: black;
    cursor: auto;
}

a:link, a:visited {
    text-decoration: none;
    color: blue;
    cursor: pointer;
}