No, you can only do this with CSS, and it's so ridiculously simple I don't understand why would go out of your way to avoid it.
For example, if you have links in two different parts of your page:
Code:
<div id="header">
<a href="#">Link in header</a>
</div>
<div class="navigation">
<a href="#">Nav link</a>
</div>
Then to give them two different colors you would have something like this in your CSS file:
Code:
#header a {
color: #990000; /* red */
}
.navigation a {
color: #000099; /* blue */
}
What you're seeing there is very basic CSS selectors. Having "#header a" as the selector says "For any <a> tag inside of something with an ID of 'header', the following applies." Same deal with navigation, except I used a class instead of an ID.
You can take this idea further and define their hover behaviors differently:
Code:
#header a {
color: #990000; /* red */
text-decoration: none;
}
#header a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
.navigation a {
color: #000099; /* blue */
}
That addition removes the default underline on the links in the #header div only, but applies the underline when you hover over them. The behavior of other links on the page remains unchanged.
I have a hard time believing you haven't found a good tutorial for CSS yet. There's literally thousands out there. And I've said this before and I'll say it again: you will spend more time learning bad habits with something like Dreamweaver than you would spend learning how to do this stuff by hand with a decent tutorial. If you would have learned anything about CSS, you wouldn't have gotten stuck on something like this and wasted time trying to figure it out; I guarantee you'll run into things like this *constantly* if you depend on a WYSIWYG editor like Dreamweaver all the time. In the long run, it will cost you more time and suffering.
