Title: Newbie CSS problems
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Newbie CSS problems

 *  [jameskay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameskay/)
 * (@jameskay)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newbie-css-problems/)
 * Hello all,
    I apologise for the nature of this question as I’m quite new to this
   CSS business, but I have a problem with changing my theme in subtle ways that
   I simply cannot fathom.
 * First the site: [http://www.gangan.jp](http://www.gangan.jp)
 * I have tried to code my own theme but I got nowhere, so I’m using a HEAVILY modified
   version of Binary News by Herreman David. I have it working pretty much as I 
   want now except for the following niggles:
 * – Link headers in the sidebar can’t seem to be changed. They’re huge. I want 
   them to be the same style as the post headers but I can’t figure out how to do
   this.
    – Links are all bulleted – I wish to remove the bullets, but again, I 
   simply cannot figure out how. – The “posted on date by author” text also cannot
   be changed somehow. I’d like that to be slightly smaller and light gray but cannot
   manage this.
 * I think it’s because there are no identifying tags there (ie. use h1 or h2 here,
   etc), but I don’t know where I should alter that.
 * Again, I apologise for the newbie nature of this post but I’ve been tearing my
   hair out over this for quite a while now. Any inisghts would be greatly appreciated.
 * James Kay
 * EDIT: D’oh! Wrong forum, I recon. Can any mods move this to the Themes forum?
   Sorry about that.

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 *  [jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/)
 * (@jwurster)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newbie-css-problems/#post-558150)
 * I would look at the sidebar.php and the main index php (or wherevere the post
   are displayed). Look to see what css tag is around the item you are concerned
   with. Then look in the stylesheet for that tag and change it.
 * If you are using FF, you could turn on view css and then click on the section
   you are interested in. That will show you the css and then you can start modifying
   it.
 *  Thread Starter [jameskay](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jameskay/)
 * (@jameskay)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newbie-css-problems/#post-558156)
 * Thanks for the reply!
    I think I’ve sorted the link header problem, however the
   date posted and link list problems persist.
 * No matter how many times and whereever I set ” list-style-type: none;”, those
   bulletpoints remain.
    Also, the date posted info seems to be unstyled. Where 
   do I add a tag for those? Is that part of the post php?
 * I’m sorry for my ignorance here. I hope these ramblings make some sense…
 * J
 *  [rudolf45](https://wordpress.org/support/users/rudolf45/)
 * (@rudolf45)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newbie-css-problems/#post-558157)
 * A great guide to find your “style”:
    [http://codex.wordpress.org/Finding_Your_CSS_Styles](http://codex.wordpress.org/Finding_Your_CSS_Styles)
 *  [jwurster](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jwurster/)
 * (@jwurster)
 * [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newbie-css-problems/#post-558338)
 * Doing some reading on css would be helpful. I just looked at your css and there
   is no style information for the li elements. Look in another theme stylesheet
   and see how it is done. You have a div class defined for the links but no css.

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 * Last activity: [19 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/newbie-css-problems/#post-558338)
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