table styles - how can i implement style on just 1 table.

I am using this css styling for a particular table in a div.

/* 
	table properties
*/
table {
  border-collapse: collapse;
  border: 1px solid #03476F;
  font: normal 11px verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
  color: #363636;
  background: #92C428;
  }
caption {
  text-align: center;
  font: bold 18px arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
  background: transparent;
  padding:6px 4px 8px 0px;
  color: #03476F;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  }
td, th {
  border: 1px dotted #03476F;
  padding: .4em;
  color: #363636;
  }

thead th, tfoot th {
  font: bold 11px verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
  border: 1px solid #03476F;;
  text-align: left;
  background: #4591AD;
  color: #FFFFFF;
  padding-top:3px;
  }
tbody td a {
  background: transparent;
  text-decoration: none;
  color: #363636;
  }
tbody td a:hover {
  background: #C2F64D;
  color: #363636;
  }
tbody th a {
  font: normal 11px verdana, arial, helvetica, sans-serif;
  background: transparent;
  text-decoration: none;
  font-weight:normal;
  color: #363636;
  }
tbody th a:hover {
  background: transparent;
  color: #363636;
  }
tbody th, tbody td {
  vertical-align: top;
  text-align: left;
  }
tfoot td {
  border: 1px solid #03476F;
  background: #4591AD;
  padding-top:3px;
  color: #FFFFFF;
  }
.odd {
  background: #AEE239;
  }
tbody tr:hover {
  background: #FFD800;
  border: 1px solid #03476F;
  color: #FFFFFF;
  }
tbody tr:hover th,
tbody tr.odd:hover th {
  background: #FFD800;
  color: #FFFFFF;
  }

Code (markup):

Obviously this will apply to EVERY table even layout ones on my page. What i want to do is ONLY use this css style for a specific table that is going to be used to compare things. Im pretty sure i need to assign it a class e.g

compare.table

Code (markup):

or something but not sure how i would go about doing this....

thanks in advance for any help.

 

Well now, you did say that this table was in a div. Does this div have a name? Is there only one table in that div? If so, you have several options:

Stick and id or a class on the div, and style the table accordingly:
<div id="tablewrapper">

#tablewrapper table {
styles;
}

If this same div has more tables in it though, then just give your particular table the class or id.
If it's a really special table and there really is only one of them (per page), then give it an id.

<table id="supercooltable">

#supercooltable {
table styles;
}

#supercooltable th, td {
styles;
}
#supercooltable tfoot {
styles;
}

etc