Global CSS declaration for "a" (i. e. "a href") tag

I have style definitions that look like this:

.a10b,
.a10b a:link,
.a10b a:visited,
.a10b a:hover
{
font: 10px Arial;
color: #000000;
text-decoration: none;
}
.a10b a:hover {text-decoration: underline}

Code (markup):

I have 20 text styles, and for all of them I declare like this, resulting in a lengthy style sheet.

a:link and a:visited should always be {text-decoration: none} for me, and a:hover always {text-decoration: underline}.

If I could declare these in just one place, valid for all styles, I would save huge bytes. Is that possible?

Thank you very much for your time!

 

Thanks Katy. Unfortunately, that does not seem to be working. This is what my code looks like for a sample style:

a {text-decoration: none;}
a:hover {text-decoration: underline;}

.v10w
{
font-family: Verdana;
font-size: 10px;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
/*several other styles like this*/

Code (markup):

however, something like

<DIV CLASS="v10w"><A HREF="whatever">some text</A></DIV>

Code (markup):

results in the link turning blue .

Apologies, maybe I did not say that right. The global defs for "a" are working, but the links turn blue, instead of staying the color of the class.

Okay, this works:

a {text-decoration: none;}
a:hover {text-decoration: underline;}

.v10w,
.v10w a
{
font-family: Verdana;
font-size: 10px;
color: #FFFFFF;
}
/*several other styles like this*/

Code (markup):

That is, something like:

<DIV CLASS="v10w"><A HREF="whatever">some text</A></DIV>

Code (markup):

now renders the link white, without underline, and with an underline only on hover.

It is a indeed huge reduction in code . Now if only I could get rid of the ".v10w a" too. But I am pretty pleased with myself . Thanks a bunch, Katy - you really did me a huge turn here!

 

a.v10w would take care of only links with the v10w class, right? I still need a declaration for just plain v10w (e. g. DIV CLASS="v10w">test</DIV>)...

I therefore am using:

.v10w,
.v10w a
{
styles
}

Code (markup):

I need to test if just a.v10w will work for both cases (link and non-link)...