Title: some template weirdness
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# some template weirdness

 *  [strangelittleboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strangelittleboy/)
 * (@strangelittleboy)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-template-weirdness/)
 * I’m going a bit mad here. I’m working on my sidebar after finally getting the
   content part of my site to work properly. My problem is, for some reason in the
   category and monthly parts, it’s imposing ul and li tags where I don’t want them.
   It also does it with the link bits, even though I removed those tags from the“
   before” and “after” boxes in the link categories settings page.
    Can someone 
   tell me how to fix this?

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 *  [willm](https://wordpress.org/support/users/willm/)
 * (@willm)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-template-weirdness/#post-34841)
 * The list tags are supposed to be there. If you don’t want the bullets, get rid
   of them in the CSS.
 *  Thread Starter [strangelittleboy](https://wordpress.org/support/users/strangelittleboy/)
 * (@strangelittleboy)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-template-weirdness/#post-34844)
 * It’s not so much the bullets… the problem is with the way I format my code and
   how the ul and li tags complicate things.
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-template-weirdness/#post-34854)
 * The ul and li tags are defined in wp-layout.css
    You can remove or adapt them
   by editing that file.
 *  [NuclearMoose](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nuclearmoose/)
 * (@nuclearmoose)
 * [22 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-template-weirdness/#post-34867)
 * [@anonymous](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anonymous/),
    You can use wp-
   layout.css to style the UL and LI tags, but in order to actually remove them 
   from the code, you would have to edit the index.php file.
 *  Anonymous
 * [22 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/some-template-weirdness/#post-35010)
 * I don’t know if I could be allowed to encourage you to keep the list tags intact
   in your menu.
    All the css gurus (Meyer, Zeldeman, Listapart and co) say this
   is the way to go. Once your links are under control in a list you can apply all
   kinds of fancy effects to them because they are readily accessible thru child
   selectors. I have a feeling you may be thinking in terms of a table. Matter of
   choice and it will certainly validate but whether that is the *best* solution
   is a matter for you. On a broader note when the day dawns as it hope it will 
   that you find you are more at ease with css you may find it absolutely ROCKS.
   BTW:- no one has yet challenged a css guru to reproduce a table layout and he
   has not succeeded. Good luck and keep on hacking.

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