Title: formatting nested lists
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# formatting nested lists

 *  Resolved [mzimmers](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mzimmers/)
 * (@mzimmers)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-nested-lists/)
 * Hi, all –
 * I borrowed some code from my theme’s style sheet, and it used to work correctly
   for me, but now it isn’t. Here’s an example:
 *     ```
       #sidemenu ul li ul li { margin: 5px 0px 5px 10px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 4px; }
       #sidemenu ul li ul li a { text-decoration:none; text-transform:none; color: green; }
       ```
   
 * I inferred that this should format a nested list item, but it’s not “taking.”
 * For those who want to see the code, the definitions above are in:
 * [http://www.scopedin.com://wordpress/wp-content/themes/cutline-3-column-split-11/custom.css](http://www.scopedin.com://wordpress/wp-content/themes/cutline-3-column-split-11/custom.css)
 * and they’re supposed to be taking effect here:
 * [http://www.scopedin.com/wordpress/?page_id=8](http://www.scopedin.com/wordpress/?page_id=8)
 * The words “Stories” and “Editorials” in the sidebar should be indented and green.
 * Any ideas what’s happening? As I said, this used to work, but I had to doctor
   the sidebar code a bit, and now it’s broken.
 * Thanks…

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 * [format](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/format/)
 * [list](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/list/)
 * [nested](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nested/)

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 * Last activity: [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/formatting-nested-lists/)
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