Title: Sidebars – No more lists?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Sidebars – No more lists?

 *  [raavea](https://wordpress.org/support/users/raavea/)
 * (@raavea)
 * [17 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/sidebars-no-more-lists/)
 * Hi there,
    Working on a site where I use this sort of markup to define the sidebar;
 *     ```
       <h2>Recent Updates</h2>
             <h3>New Look</h3>
             As you will likely notice the site has a new look. <a href="#">More…</a>
   
             <h3>New Focus</h3>
             The site's focus has changed slightly. <a href="#">More…</a>
       ```
   
 * So I was transferring my page design into a WP theme, and I read that to make
   sidebars without lists I use
 *     ```
       <?php if ( !function_exists('dynamic_sidebar')
               || !dynamic_sidebar() ) : ?>
       ```
   
 * in my sidebar, and I have a functions.php with this code;
 *     ```
       <?php
       if ( function_exists('register_sidebar') )
           register_sidebar(array(
           'before_widget' => '<div id="%1$s" class="widget %2$s">',
           'after_widget' => '</div>',
           'before_title' => '<h2 class="title">',
           'after_title' => '</h2>',
           ));
       ?>
       ```
   
 * However, this does not remove the lists as I expected. Here is how the code outputs
   in browser;
 *     ```
       <div id="recent-posts" class="widget widget_recent_entries">
       <h2 class="title">Recent Posts</h2>
       <ul>
       <li><a href="http://www.mypagehehe.com/archives/2009/04/03/hello-world/">Hello world! </a></li>
       </ul>
       </div><div id="tag_cloud" class="widget widget_tag_cloud"><h2 class="title">Tags</h2></div>
       <li id="linkcat-2" class="linkcat"><h2>Blogroll</h2>
       <ul>
       <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/development/">Development Blog</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://codex.wordpress.org/">Documentation</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/">Plugins</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/ideas/">Suggest Ideas</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/support/">Support Forum</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://wordpress.org/extend/themes/">Themes</a></li>
       <li><a href="http://planet.wordpress.org/">WordPress Planet</a></li>
       </ul>
       ```
   
 *  Is it possible to remove these darn lists completely? I’ve looked but am still
   at a loss. The titles are coming out as H2 tags, as I hoped, but the thing (the
   API?) is still wrapping each link into a list item.
 *  Any help greatly appreciated.

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