Link Category CSS issue

  • Hi, all.

    I’m having a problem with the way the Link categories are displaying on my website (www.nixsight.net).

    Because I didn’t know how to build a theme, I took “Connections” (which had similar functions to the ones I needed) and rewrote the CSS and some of the templates (my first foray into PHP!).

    Connections places all of the links under one heading, so I looked at other themes to see which ones displayed the links under their category headings, worked out which code “grabbed” the info, and put it in my sidebar.

    The problem is (as you can see from the page), the formatting of the link categories (“Creatives and Such” and “Other Internets”) is displaying differently from my other sidebar items. The items have adopted the CSS for list headings to an extent, but with a weird indent or justification.

    I’d like the sidebar to look seamless, but I don’t know if this is an issue with my CSS or my PHP… and I know it’s probably something really simple! Does anyone have any ideas?

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  • Couldn’t you just make another link category?
    Or will Connections not let you do that?

    Thread Starter papadoc

    (@papadoc)

    “Couldn’t you just make another link category?
    Or will Connections not let you do that?”

    Sorry, I’ve probably confused things by giving too much history… Connections is just the theme I used to work out how WordPress themes are formatted… I mentioned it to illustrate the background of the problem.

    I think the problem is related to the php:
    <?php get_links_list(); ?>

    Not understanding PHP properly, I really don’t know how this works, but it’s clearly pulling in some CSS definitions with the data that don’t fit with my stylesheet. The CSS that was in there previously:
    <h2><?php _e('Links'); ?></h2>
    <ul><?php get_links('-1', '<li>', '</li>', ' '); ?></ul>

    … kept the CSS styles I was using for the rest of the sidebar, but had all the links in one section, which wasn’t what I wanted.

    I looked at your site and was really confused until I looked at in it IE. In FF it looks just fine.

    And in looked at what you had and what you changed it it, I suggest you read over carefully the following:
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/get_links
    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/get_links_list

    The part you changed wasn’t really PHP, it was a wp links tag and the bits after it were conditions for the tag to display a certain way.

    Hopefully the codex links will narrow it down, but I’m guessing you’ll need to do some futzing around with padding in the CSS to make IE happy. :-/

    Thread Starter papadoc

    (@papadoc)

    Hmm. How peculiar.

    I see what you mean… for some reason, Firefox perfectly parses my css the way I want it to, but IE doesn’t. Bizarrely, Firefox also drops some of the text styles I set within the main post/header.

    I’m still really struggling to get the darn thing to work… does anyone else have any ideas what might be causing the problem? Maybe someone with some knowledge as to how Firefox and IE parse pages…

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