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1. HTML/CSS issue with a:hover and spans    stackoverflow.com

Any way I can get this working? I have a block of code:

<p><a href="http://foo.com"><span class="title">Title</span><br /><br />
Some text no greater than a couple of lines...</a></p>

My styles are:

p {color:#FFF;}
a {color:#999;}
.title {color:#FFF; font-weight:bold;}
a:hover {color:#FF0;}

My ...