hypertext links tags and CSS

I am using FrontPage 98.
I do not what to use frames.
I am using shared left borders. Here is what I want to do using CSS:

I want to have my hypertext links in the shared left border to not be the
same as the hypertext links in the main body. The links on the left border
are being used for navigation so I want them to look different.

In other words I want the active, visited, hover attributes to be different
in the shared left border than the body of the web page.

I know how to created different attributes. The problem is because the tags
a:visited, a:link are appearing the same in the border as the main page.
This could be solved with frames, but I don't want to use frames.

I know how to create different classes, but don't see a way to do it for
hypertext links commands.

Richard Dover

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