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1. fmueller
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I am almost done building a site at http://www.ohiocichlid.com using WordPress as CMS. Two problems remain:

   1. In the sidebar is a mysterious stray bullet right at the top. How to get rid of it?

   2. The font in the footer is huge in IE, but looks fine in other browsers. How to fix this vexing IE problem?

   Many thanks!

   Frank

2. Roy
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   The dot could come from a list item. Did you have a look at this? Maybe it helps to get rid off them.

3. fmueller
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Gangleri - thanks for the response. You are probably right that those error message would point somebody more knowledgeable than me in the right direction, but unfortunately I don't know where to look for fixing those problems. My sidebar.php is short and sweet:

   '<div id="sidebar">
   <?php wp_list_pages('exclude=178,224,226,228&title_li=<h2> </h2>' ); ?>
   </div>'

   Nothing else in there. Where do I have to look???

   Frank

4. fmueller
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Anybody? That dot is driving me nuts!

5. rtivel
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi,

   I also see the dot in Firefox.

   The problem seems to be related to the sidebar code. A quick check of your page with the W3C Validator Service shows the problem area.

   About line 125 of the code you will see this:

   <div id="sidebar">
   	    <li class="pagenav"><h2><ul><li class="page_item page-item-3 current_page_item"><a href="http://www.ohiocichlid.com" title="Ohio Cichlid Association">Ohio Cichlid Association</a></li>

   If you delete or comment out <li class="pagenav"> you will lose the dot, at least in firefox. The "li" tag is improperly used: it lies within "div" and not within "dir, menu, ol, or ul."

   Also, in XHMTL 1.0 transitional, "ul" is not allowed within "h2."

   So, you might want to take a look, perhaps, at your sidebar.php file for the problem.

   I hope this helps.

   Royce

6. rtivel
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi, again.

   I got so involved with my answer that I missed your previous point with respect to what is in your sidebar.php file.

   Royce

7. rtivel
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Just another thought, and then I'll step aside for the experts.

   Looking at wp_list_pages
   I see that the function is normally enclosed in "ul" tags:

   <ul>
     <?php wp_list_pages('exclude=17,38' ); ?>
   </ul>

   I don't see the tags in your sidebar.php file listing. Perhaps if you did this, the "li" tag would no longer be a problem. Getting rid of any remaining bullet would then be a styling problem (style.css).

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