Mysterious dot in sidebar & footer font too large in IE

The dot could come from a list item. Did you have a look at this? Maybe it helps to get rid off them.

Gangleri – thanks for the response. You are probably right that those error message would point somebody more knowledgeable than me in the right direction, but unfortunately I don’t know where to look for fixing those problems. My sidebar.php is short and sweet:

‘<div id=”sidebar”>
<?php wp_list_pages(‘exclude=178,224,226,228&title_li=<h2> </h2>’ ); ?>
</div>’

Nothing else in there. Where do I have to look???

Frank

Anybody? That dot is driving me nuts!

Hi,

I also see the dot in Firefox.

The problem seems to be related to the sidebar code. A quick check of your page with the W3C Validator Service shows the problem area.

About line 125 of the code you will see this:

<div id="sidebar">
	    <li class="pagenav"><h2><ul><li class="page_item page-item-3 current_page_item"><a href="https://www.ohiocichlid.com" title="Ohio Cichlid Association">Ohio Cichlid Association</a></li>

If you delete or comment out <li class="pagenav"> you will lose the dot, at least in firefox. The “li” tag is improperly used: it lies within “div” and not within “dir, menu, ol, or ul.”

Also, in XHMTL 1.0 transitional, “ul” is not allowed within “h2.”

So, you might want to take a look, perhaps, at your sidebar.php file for the problem.

I hope this helps.

Royce

Hi, again.

I got so involved with my answer that I missed your previous point with respect to what is in your sidebar.php file.

Royce

Just another thought, and then I’ll step aside for the experts.

Looking at wp_list_pages
I see that the function is normally enclosed in “ul” tags:

<ul>
  <?php wp_list_pages('exclude=17,38' ); ?>
</ul>

I don’t see the tags in your sidebar.php file listing. Perhaps if you did this, the “li” tag would no longer be a problem. Getting rid of any remaining bullet would then be a styling problem (style.css).