Well, I’ve learned how to edit my paid CSS stylesheet to include three types of ‘list styles’. The first level is a ‘disc’, the second level is a ‘circle’ and the third and fourth levels are ‘squares’. I learned this by trial and error and by reviewing the CSS stylesheets from a couple of old themes via WordPress.com. This is almost like learning by back engineering and some knowledge I gain is in this manner (by copying and pasting or rather regurgitating for my own purpose).
Anyway, these three types of list style appears not only in the sidebar (or bottombar below) as blue colors but also in three of my pages, ‘About me’, ‘Contents’, and ‘Site map’, all of which are located at the topbar (or navigation bar) in black color. I don’t know how these two colors differ but will hunt and locate the booger hiding somewhere within the pre-programmed CSS stylesheets provided for each theme.
So, the ‘HTML’ tab, which is located to the right of the ‘Visual’ tab for both my ‘Post’ and ‘Page’ help to ‘force’ these levels into their proper places. For one ‘disc’ level, I started out with < ul >, < li > and < div > at the beginning of the line and ended with < /div > only, (or < /li > and < /div > for multiple ‘discs’).
For one ‘circle’ level, I entered < ul >, < li > and < div > twice and ended with < /li > and < /div > twice. For more than one ‘circle’ level, I entered < li > and < div > twice and ended with < /li > and < /div > twice, after completing one ‘circle’ level with the < ul > in the beginning of the first line.
The ‘HTML’ tab is useful when that ‘Unordered List’ button under the ‘Visual’ tab does no more than one level. It’s a pain, however, to copy and paste each combination of ‘tags’ within the ‘HTML’ to ‘force’ these list levels to appear exactly the way I want: disc, circle and square.
Addendum at 01:48AM on 04/06/2008: I just added a fourth and fifth level types of list style with ‘decimal’ and ‘lower-alpha’, respectively. This only appears within the ‘Pages’ widget located at the sidebar (or bottombar) below the ‘reading sections above.
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