[robot180]

What I would have done is to make one div tag and put those in the div using a tags, instead of span tags. This way they are already links. Then use CSS to change the a tags, all with one class, to whatever width, height, font, background, hover, etc. Then use the div with an id or class to set properties for the group of links.

I'm not sure if this is what you are trying to fix.