Css Links

question is about CSS and links.

I can get underline effect, background change, etc by using .a but i need to have more than one sort of link in my page, e.g. menu links cannot have the same effect as links in the main text.

How do i set up more than two link effects?

You can do:

a:link {} as your default link and
a.menu:link {} for your menu.

a better way is to use the cascading in css,
then you don't have to assign a class attribute to every link-element

css:
#menu a:link {
text-decoration:none;
font-weight:bold;
}

#content a:link {
color:#000000;
}

html:
<ul id="menu>
<li><a href="#">menu link</a></li>
</ul>

<div id="content">
<p><a href="#">content link</a></p>
</div>

in these examples the css will affect every link within the elements of either #menu or #content giving them diffrent styles.