Shorten the comma separated CSS selectors

Question

Maybe the title of this question is ambiguous, what I really mean is:

#footer_list li a:link, #footer_list li a:visited
{
    blah balh blah
}

Is there a shortcut for the two elements in CSS? so the CSS selectors can be shortened

Answer 1

Sure. If you give them each their own respective class/id names. But thats unnecessary. The code you have is perfectly acceptable, as CSS is Cascading Style Sheets, the rules cascade down essentially.