How to Make Single Widget CSS Override Template CSS

crap, did i break this post by trying to link my url? where’d my original issue go?

adam, here was my url and the code i mentioned:

http://jeffrey-davis.net/blog/

/* Side Navigation */

.navigate {
	padding: 10px 0 30px 35px;
	font-size: 10px;
	font-family: arial, sans-serif;
	}

.navigate ul {
	list-style-type: none;
	font-size: 11px;
	padding: 0;
	margin: 0;
	}

.navigate li a {
	background: url("images/arw.gif") no-repeat top left;
	text-decoration: none;
	display: block;
	color: #7F8062;
	border-bottom: #1F270B 1px solid;
	padding: 4px 0 4px 21px;
	margin: 0;
	}

i am trying to use alex king’s twitter tools to parse my tweets into my sidebar, but when i do, any url’s in my tweets and the links to “more updates” break to a different line as is the style of the rest of the links on my sidebar.

i tried to fix that by editing the plugin file with different ul, li, and a class, but when viewing my site’s page source, that class was still wrapped in the .navigate class that i showed above.

any ideas how to make the links in that one widget appear as regular content links instead of the style of the other links on my sidebar?

adam, thanks for the suggestion. what you proposed didn’t seem to work, but then again it was problem incorrect implmentation on my part, here’s what i did:

in the twitter tools plugin file i put:

.twitter_tools li a {
        text-decoration: none;
	color: #7F8062;
}
.navigate .twitter_tools li a {
        display:inline;
}

and i am unsure of what else to do. do i wrap an area in a div class or do i assign a li class?

here’s the part that will need the markup:

function aktt_sidebar_tweets() {
	global $wpdb, $aktt;
	$tweets = $wpdb->get_results("
		SELECT *
		FROM $wpdb->aktt
		GROUP BY tw_id
		ORDER BY tw_created_at DESC
		LIMIT $aktt->sidebar_tweet_count
	");
	$output = '<div class="aktt_tweets">'."\n"
		.'	<ul>'."\n";
	if (count($tweets) > 0) {
		foreach ($tweets as $tweet) {
			$output .= '		<li>'.aktt_make_clickable(wp_specialchars($tweet->tw_text)).' <a href="http://twitter.com/'.$aktt->twitter_username.'/statuses/'.$tweet->tw_id.'">'.aktt_relativeTime($tweet->tw_created_at, 3).'</a></li>'."\n";
		}
	}
	else {
		$output .= '		<li>'.__('No tweets available at the moment.', 'twitter-tools').'</li>'."\n";
	}
	$output .= '		<li class="aktt_more_updates"><a href="http://twitter.com/'.$aktt->twitter_username.'">More updates...</a></li>'."\n"
		.'</ul>';
	if ($aktt->tweet_from_sidebar == '1') {
		$output .= aktt_tweet_form('input', 'onsubmit="akttPostTweet(); return false;"');
		$output .= '	<p id="aktt_tweet_posted_msg">'.__('Posting tweet...', 'twitter-tools').'
';
	}
	if ($aktt->give_tt_credit == '1') {
		$output .= '<p class="aktt_credit">Powered by <a href="http://alexking.org/projects/wordpress">Twitter Tools</a>.
';
	}
	$output .= '</div>';
	print($output);
}

thanks for your help…hope the burger was tasty 😉