[html] Applying CSS styles to all elements inside a DIV

If you're looking for a shortcut for writing out all of your selectors, then a CSS Preprocessor (Sass, LESS, Stylus, etc.) can do what you're looking for. However, the generated styles must be valid CSS.

Sass:

#applyCSS {
    .ui-bar-a {
       color: blue;
    }
    .ui-bar-a .ui-link-inherit {
       color: orange;
    }
    background: #CCC;
}

Generated CSS:

#applyCSS {
  background: #CCC;
}

#applyCSS .ui-bar-a {
  color: blue;
}

#applyCSS .ui-bar-a .ui-link-inherit {
  color: orange;
}