How To Stop Bullets

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Are you talking about the bullets on the sidebar menu? or
the bullets in your documents.

They are both created by unorder list which is the default be havior for that element.

if it is on the unordered list you can add code to the additional CSS in the customizer. For example to get rid of the bullets in your sidebar you can add

nav ul li {
    list-style: none;
}

the bullets in the document.
now I look at it again maybe it’s not as wrong as I thought.

It has taken that first para without a bullet, that’s good.
That’s the “The peer reviewed journal…’ para.

Then it has bulleted the links beneath.
Well they may have been there in the source document.

In which case I’m complaining about nothing. I wanted the bullets IT was putting in to stop at that ‘peer reviewed’ para and I’ve seen those bullets beneath it and thought they haven’t…

but maybe they have…

Sorry if I’m all in error…

hmm. I see I can’t edit.

Ah well. No, it didn’t behave well. Those last two bullet points are not from the source.

You can see what I’ve done there. I’ve ended and written ‘and it goes on’ and then I’ve provided a link.

It’s bulleted that link as part of a series of bullet points.

I don’t want that. Whether I want it or not the point is: how to stop it happening?
Stop all the auto bulleting would be fine by me.

This page explains how list styles work. It has an area to test your styles. Try reading through it to see if it helps.