Category Sidebar Plugin - Trouble with Joshua template

theseus · Post by **theseus** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 4:44 am

I am using the Joshua template and when I use the Category Sidebar plugin, it places bullets in front of the category listing but they are not padded properly. How do I fix this? My website is http://www.cambigue.com/serendipity

Thanks

Theseus

Incidently, I can't get PEAR properly configured so I can use the Tree Menu....

carl_galloway · Post by **carl_galloway** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 5:03 am

Hi theseus, are you talking about the black dots to the left of your category form? If so, the category sidebar plugin outputs an unordered list <ol><li> so what you need to do in style.css for the joshua theme is add the following

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.container_serendipity_categories_plugin li {
list-style-type:none; 
}

I haven't tested it but that should work, or at least give you a good idea of where to start.

Cheers, and good luck

Carl

theseus · Post by **theseus** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 11:53 am

Thanks for the help. I tried that but it didn't work. But I am open to other suggestions

I think the issue is that this is not a standard plugin but actual built in functionallity...

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Tue Mar 21, 2006 7:57 pm

That's weird. Carl's CSS should have caused it to disappear; in fact, it's got inline style that should leave it with no marker. But I can't get it to go away in EditCSS.

Could there be some JavaScript involved that we don't know about?

theseus · Post by **theseus** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:11 am

An older nightly version (Serendipity 1.0-alpha2) doesn't have this problem. The problem only shows up with Serendipity 1.1-alpha1. So this is internal and not the plugin... in my opinion. I am going to put up the latest nightly version and see what happens....

theseus · Post by **theseus** » Wed Mar 22, 2006 2:47 am

Ok. The latest nightly version didn't make a difference.... Thoughts? suggestions? Thanks for your help

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Thu Mar 23, 2006 3:35 am

Can you run once under the working version, copy the source of the sidebar, and run again under the non-working version, and copy its source?

If not, I'll try to do it on my own, but it might take me a while to get to it.

theseus · Post by **theseus** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 5:17 am

judebert wrote:Can you run once under the working version, copy the source of the sidebar, and run again under the non-working version, and copy its source?

If not, I'll try to do it on my own, but it might take me a while to get to it.

I really can't take the site down right now. If you can figure out how to bypass this problem, that would be great. I not in any rush, but really like this template...

Thanks

Theseus

judebert · Post by **judebert** » Tue Mar 28, 2006 4:48 pm

I'll give it a shot. I'm busy with the 1.0 release right now, but if I haven't got back to you in a week, bump this topic so I remember it again.

Post by **garvinhicking** » Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:48 pm

Hi!

In a german thread http://www.s9y.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=4958 , it was solved by re-setting the "background" property of some li/mainpane element that caused those dots?!

Regards,
Garvin

theseus · Post by **theseus** » Sun Apr 09, 2006 4:02 am

Thanks Garvin!

Removing the Background line from the style.css file in the Joshua template fixed the problem.

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# mainpane left
{ cunning style: none;
padding left: 10px;
background: url(templates/joshua/img/bullet_rounded.gif) NO-repeat 0 6px; margin left: -11px;
}

Thanks Again for pointing me in the right direction!