Limit Jquery-UI to certain elements of the page

Limit Jquery-UI to certain elements of the page

Hello all,

I've used jQuery for many situations, but never quite come on the situation I'm in right now.

I'd like to use jQuery-UI functionality on a small portion of my page, but I need the rest of the page, in particularly the links and buttons, to remain untouched by jQuery-UI. In particular, I can't have the additional classes " ui-button ui-widget ui-state-default ui-corner-all ui-button-text-only " automatically added to every link on the whole page. I just want those limited to a certain DIV of the page. 

Is this possible with jQuery-UI?

Thx,
/st.da