Styling Every Other Category using wp_list_categories

Also I would like to know if there is a way where I can put two characters in front of each category. (I want ‘->’ before each category without the quotes)

Anybody? ??

what is the code that does the category list in the sidebar?

(as it does not seem to be standard wordpress, it would be really helpful to know how it is done; there is maybe an easy way to add these ‘even’ ‘odd’ classes, and the prefix -> )

<p class="cats"><?php wp_list_categories('title_li=&depth=1&style=none'); ?></p>

This is the code that gets the categories. It displays them with a line break instead of an li with the style=none I think, so how would I go about doing that?

When I remove style=none and then try to style the ul without a list icon, nothing happens.

p.cats ul {
 list-style: none;
}

The code above does not work, not sure why. It’s kind of strange but I can figure that out with a little snooping around.

But there you have it, the code that displays the categories is above.

I fixed the background image thing using CSS3’s :nth-child() selector.

Now all I need is the -> to be before each category.

possibly with css as well:

p.cats a:before { content: '->'; }

or

#sidebar-single li.cat-item a:before { content: '->'; }

Thanks very much it works.

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