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1. fractalbit
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Hello, i have a very weird problem in my site. As you can see here: http://www.fractalbit.gr no bullet symbol appears before the list items in sidebar. I would like this symbol to appear: »

   The problem is, even if i use the default theme, the problem remains, no bullets! So it probably isnt a css thing.

   If i make a post with ul li tags it has the bullets. But in the sidebar they do not appear.

   Unfortunately i cant remember when this started happening.

   Any help will be greatly appreciated,
   Thanks for your time.

2. whooami
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   So it probably isnt a css thing.

   Its very much a CSS thing, especially since you mentioned them missing in the default theme. » is added by the default theme's style.css.

   If you do not see them in the default theme you have either edited the style.css OR you have changed the structure of the sidebar significantly enough that you need to adjust the CSS to reflect the changes you made to the structure.

   Your current theme isnt valid.

   http://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http://www.fractalbit.gr/

   and a good deal of the errors reside in your sidebar -- so Im not going to look any further, Im sorry.

3. fractalbit
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   I havent messed up with the default theme at all. All the changes i made were to a custom theme. Even when i choose the default or the classic theme and remove all the widgets from the sidebar but the categories (or the blogroll, just to have something to see the lists) the bullets do not show :(

   I tried with the default theme the validator you suggest and it says it passed with no errors, but still the damn bullets do not show!

4. whooami
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   If you put your site up with the default theme, I will look. Like I said though, you need to fix the validation errors on your current theme before Ill even look at that one.

5. fractalbit
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Ok, I FOUND IT!!!!!!!!!!!!

   The problem was caused when enabling the (excellent, except this) wp-polls plugin! No matter if a poll was enabled in the sidebar or not.

   This was because, when the plugin was enabled it linked to the polls-css.css which had the following code inside:

   .wp-polls ul li:before, wp-polls-ul li, .wp-polls-ans ul li:before, #sidebar ul ul li:before {
   	content: '';
   }

   The "solution" is to remove , #sidebar ul ul li:before from the code. So you should have:

   .wp-polls ul li:before, wp-polls-ul li, .wp-polls-ans ul li:before {
   	content: '';
   }

   This will have the side effect to also show the bullet points for the poll options. I am not so proficient in css to solve this but I will inform the creator of wp-polls plugin ... hope this helps someone :)

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