I've inherited a intranet website that needs updating and I have very little experience. My predecessor set things up so that when I create a page, it includes a predeveloped header and footer. He also has some styles applied globally that I have no idea how to change (not that I want to). The problem I am having is that I'm creating a new page for our intranet that contains a list of links. For some reason, the bullets are not appearing the UL list I'm creating. I'm using Dreamweaver MX and the bullets do show in design mode. I'm viewing in IE7. I've looked all over and it seems that the UL tag should handle bullets so I'm thinking it has something to do with template I'm including. Does anyone know what is wrong here and why I can't see the bullets? Below is the code I have so far, I'm very new to this, so any help in easy to understand terms would be greatly appreciated!
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What you are looking for is likely going to be in a style sheet.
Look for something like: "list-style-type:" or "list-style"
If you don't want to alter the style then you will need to create a local or inline style to turn the bullets back on, something like:
style="list-style-type: circle; list-style-position: outside;"
Thanks so much to both of you for getting back to me. Hube02, your recommendation appears to solve my situation. I had to change the position to "inside" for the bullets to show up. Just one more thing, I'd like to type out "style="list-style-type: circle; list-style-position: outside;"" only once and apply it by referencing it within each <UL> tag (like I did for the links) see below:
<style type="text/css">
.changelinks A:link {color:#000000; text-decoration : underline;}
.changelinks A:active {color:#990000; text-decoration : underline}
.changelinks A:visited {color:#990000; text-decoration : underline}
</style>
Do you know the syntax for this?
I'm only doing this two days, so bear with me. I did this:
<style type="text/css">
.changelinks A:link {color:#000000; text-decoration : underline;}
.changelinks A:active {color:#990000; text-decoration : underline}
.changelinks A:visited {color:#990000; text-decoration : underline}
.changebullets ul {list-style-type:square; list-style-position:outsid
</style>
and in the <UL> tag I did this:
<ul class="changebullets">
This didn't work. What did I do wrong?
Because you don't have a div in your page with a class of "changebullets", unless you have made another change to your HTML, but, the ul list is inside the div with the class of "changelinks" which is why that is the class I specified in the selector I posted:
.changelinks ul { list-style-type: circle; list-style-position: outside; }
We don't need to give each UL a class because we already have a parent with a class that we can work with. This is the better solution in my opinion because it avoids what some call "classitis"
If you would rather do it that way then do:
ul.changebullets {list-style-type:square; list-style-position:outsid
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by: JimWarnerPosted on 2009-09-02 at 09:13:55ID: 25242577
The code that you posted works just fine in IE7, IE8, and Firefox. The problem might be in the stylesheet. Look at the stylesheet for UL and/or LI. I don't know about Dreamweaver MX, but in DW8, if I have the CSS Styles window open and highlight the text, the CSS Styles window shows me all styles applied to the highlighted text.