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It should generate

<div class="menuheader">Pages</div>
<ul>
<li><a href=...
<li><a href=...
...
</ul>

You just need to style the <li> with the CSS in your style.css file, you don't necessarily need to change the html. The class of menuheader gives you an easy way to differently style that particular menu.

If you look at other WordPress blogs (or the themes in the theme directory) you'll see most of their lists are structured the exact same way. Take away the CSS files and they'll look like... well, a pretty raw mess.

You can easily re-style the list, you'll need CSS rules for:

.menuheader ul

.menuheader ul li

.menuheader ul li a

Thanks for the reply. I had tried getting rid of the list style with my css but it hadn't worked. anyway, i'll try styling the li's instead of removing them. Thanks for the help! it's appreciated!

thanks again,
Joe

Hey, ok, i've been trying to style it using the list format they provide, and am having a really hard time with it, due to the way wordpress structures they're lists. is there any possible way to edit the HTML of those lists?????

thanks a heap for your help.

(wow, wordpress's style sheet is out and this looks really weird.)

Try a few other themes, their style sheets should give you an idea how to do it. You really should try to stick with just CSS, you can make a site look totally different with a few graphic elements and a CSS stylesheet file. And the link lists are already pretty simple.

By the way, you might find more styling help over in the Themes forum than here in Plugins.

Ok, well, I'm thinking the code that's doing it is probably somewhere in my wp-include files. Anyway, it'd take too much time to try to find it in there.

Thanks for your suggestion about using other themes. I'll give it a whack (well, another whack). I know the lists are simple, but since it's formatted like this (ul>li>ul>li) it makes it harder to do what I want. Anyway, thanks again for your help.

It would be nice (I don't know if it would be possible) for WordPress to use a PHP "while" function there on the lists so you could surround your list items in whatever code you'd like. I've done it before (not on WordPress), so it's probably doable. Anyway, enough imagining.

Thanks a heap!

You could always use jQuery to modify the output later... :-)

You can also use the wp_list_pages class selectors (such as page_item) to style, see the docs for wp_list_pages.

I used those styles on my own site to generate the pages breadcrumbs at the top of the content block.

Ok, so what's jQuery?

yeah, i know about the class selectors (thanks anyway). I think my biggest problem is that with the list being inside another list, it totally messes up my padding.

ok, i see on your site how you did it, but the HTML surrounding the your menus is different than the default. How'd you do that?

The HTML around the menus is in my template files. That's where I called the wp_list_pages().

jQuery won't work for everything, it's a JavaScript library, so for the folks with JS turned off it's not going to help. But you can find out more at jquery.com.

For the list within a list bit, you can use the greater than symbol to indicate you only want to select an element that's an immediate child of another element,

ul.classname li will select all the li elements anywhere under the ul
ul.classname > li will only select the first level of lis

Try this site - http://www.maujor.com/tutorial/isel-en.php - they probably explain it better.

Ok, thanks for the menu tip, but I'm afraid it won't work any better than what i've been doing.

All I'd like to know now is which template file is the HTML for the list in?

It would be a big help, and simplify a lot of things.

Thanks so much! You've been very patient!

Joe

wp_list_pages is outputting the li.

Docs are here: http://codex.wordpress.org/wp_list_pages

Hey, thanks so much! That helped a ton! I've got it working perfectly! Thanks again for all your help, it's very appreciated!

btw, I ended up getting it to work by making the 'title_li=' an empty string. I found that out on the page you posted. Thanks again!