a.example span
{
color: #FFFFFF;
text-decoration: underline; color: #FFFFFF;
}

a.example:hover span
{
color: #990000;
text-decoration: none
} 

a:hover
{
color: #990000;
} 

a.example span span
{
color: #CC0000;
text-decoration: underline; color: #CC0000;
}