css specificity for hovering
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I'm having css specificity issues.

I want the `<td>` style to be colored different if there are 'no bills', so I set the style with an if statement.  If there are no bills, the style is `style = "id=\"no-bills\"";`.  I got this to work with css.  Now, if the user hovers over it, I want the background to go red - so I modified the css and added `#bill-list #no-bills td:hover`, which has `td:hover` to add some extra specificity when you hover over it.  Unfortunately, this doesn't work (the background stays the same).

here's my css:

    #bill-list
    {
    	font-family: "Lucida Sans Unicode", "Lucida Grande", Sans-Serif;
    	font-size: 12px;
    	/*margin: 45px;*/
    	width: 100%;
    	text-align: left;
    	border-collapse: collapse;
    }
    #bill-list th
    {
    	font-size: 13px;
    	font-weight: normal;
    	padding: 8px;
    	background: #b9c9fe;
    	border-top: 4px solid #aabcfe;
    	border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
    	color: #039;
    }
    #bill-list td
    {
    	padding: 8px;
    	background: #e8edff; 
    	border-bottom: 1px solid #fff;
    	color: #669;
    	border-top: 1px solid transparent;
    }
    #bill-list tr:hover td
    {
    	background: #d0dafd;
    	color: #339;
    }
    
    #bill-list #bill td
    {
    	background: white;
    }
    
    #bill-list #no-bills
    {
    	background: #FFCC99;
    }
    #bill-list #no-bills td:hover
    {
    	color: orange;
    	background: red /*#FFCC66*/;
    }

here's my code (snippet):

    <table id="bill-list">
    <thead>
    	<tr>
    		<% for (int i=0; i<vecHeader.size(); i++) { %>
    			<th><%=vecHeader.get(i) %></th>
    		<% } %>
    	</tr>
    </thead>
    
    <tbody>
    	<%	int uniqueId = 0;
    		for (int i=0; i < vecValue.size(); i++) { 
    		boolean hasBills = true;
    		String style = "";
    		if ( vecBills.get(i) == null || vecBills.get(i).size() == 0 ) {
    			hasBills = false;
    			style = "id=\"no-bills\"";
    		}
    		%>
    		<tr id="bill<%=i%>" onclick="javascript:showBillDetails(<%=i%>)">
    			<% for (int j=0; j < vecHeader.size(); j++) {
    				prop = (Properties)vecValue.get(i);
    				%>
    				<td <%=style%>><%=prop.getProperty((String)vecHeader.get(j), "&nbsp;") %>&nbsp;</td>
    			<% } %>
    		</tr>
    ...
    ...


Anyone have any ideas?