Separate CSS styles on elements

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Hello I've been trying to separate the link style in my navbar the one that says "Welcome User. you last visted at blah blah blah"

As we all know it takes it's style in the css selector :body

when I change the a:link atribute of that selector all links using that selector will also change, and I wanted just to customize that part in the nav bar.

I tried to customized it in the templates using span and p tags but it just won't work. The <a href=""> tags are hard coded in these strings:

<phrase 1="$bbuserinfo[username]" 2="member.php?$session[sessionurl]u=$bbuserinfo[userid]">$vbphrase[welcome_x_link_y]</phrase>

<phrase 1="$vbphrase[unread_x_nav_compiled]" 2="$vbphrase[total_x_nav_compiled]" 3="$session[sessionurl_q]">$vbphrase[private_messages_nav]</phrase>

How can I customize these strings so I can just put some custom css styles in them

Please Help

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