How to style a sidebar/widget element?

You can use more specific selectors to target CSS to only that list –
https://www.w3schools.com/cssref/css_selectors.asp

Thanks! I’m not quite sure which selector to use in this situation. I have
this plugin but I made a template with the following css:

#dc_jqaccordion_widget-%ID%-item ul ul a {font-weight:normal; padding: 5px 5px 5px 0px; background: transparent url(/wp-content/themes/u-design/styles/style1/images/heading_underline.png) repeat-x scroll 0 100%; list-style:none;}

#dc_jqaccordion_widget-%ID%-item ul a { padding: 5px 5px 5px 0px; background: transparent url(/wp-content/themes/u-design/styles/style1/images/heading_underline.png) repeat-x scroll 0 100%; list-style:none;}

I’m not suite sure how I’d use selectors in this situation because the styling itself is css.

When I remove the bulletpoints directly here by doing something like

ul {
    list-style:none;
}

It removes ALL bullet points from the site instead of this plugin.

How do I target ONLY this css code?

Why are you putting CSS inline? It should all go in an external stylesheet.

Can’t really help with CSS without seeing the page live… In general, look at what element(s) that list is in – use the class of the containing element as part of the selector. For example, something like

.mysidebar ul {
  ...
}

Cool! So I tried that out in a few places, but it doesn’t seem to control that content. When using Google’s Inspect tool, I found that I can control that list only in reset.css, which seems like I’m not styling something correctly.

It shows that my new css style elemtents are being applied to the menu, but the ‘list-style:none;’ seems to not do anything. I also tried !important but it didnt work.

Is there something I have to change with class permissions?

No, there’s no such thing as class permissions – it’s either that your CSS is invalid or your selectors are not specific enough. Or it’s possible that the reset.css file is being loaded after wherever you are putting those styles. What is the setup of your site – what theme are you using? Are you using a child theme or custom CSS or ??

Also, unless you have a class called “mysidebar” (unlikely) that’s not going to work ?? – that’s an example.

Make sure your CSS is valid –
https://www.w3schools.com/css/css_list.asp

Possibly try:

list-style-type: none;

Got it to work! Jut took some playing around with.

WPyogi, thank you very much for your time and help! I’m learning to love css!

Thanks again!

A quick sidequestion: do you happen to know how to add an element to menu items (or list items) that only have children? I can’t seem to find how to do this in css.

I’m not sure what you mean on this last question.

Sorry, let me rephrase: I want to style only the parents of children in a list (aka not list items with no children). I want to put a ‘[+]’ behind every parent with children. But I don’t know how to style only those elements.

Or is this not possible?