I'm using an unordered list for the navigation and am now needing to use one on a page. If you view the source the text is an unordered list. At first the body text (in the middle) was just like the navigation, only 150px wide with the blue background. Now I'm trying to use id and class fields to distinguish between the two lists. Now the text is the correct width and has no background like I want but the bullets don't show up. I've played around with it for a couple of hours and am just having a brain fart. I know you can view the CSS on the site but here's part of the CSS file for the list (the navigation is "y" and the body text list is "x"):

a:link { COLOR: #336699; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; }
a:visited { COLOR: #800080; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; }
a:hover { COLOR: #0000FF; TEXT-DECORATION: underline; BACKGROUND: #FFFFFF; }
a:active { COLOR: #C0C0C0; TEXT-DECORATION: none; BACKGROUND: #FFFFFF; }

    ul,li,a { display:block; margin:0; padding:0; border:0;    }

    ul.y { width:150px; border:2px solid #9d9da1; background: #82B4D7; list-style:none; }

    li.y { position:relative; padding:1px; z-index:9; }
        
    a.y {    padding:2px; padding-left:4px; border:1px solid white; text-decoration:none; color: #eceae2; font-weight:bold; width:100%; /* IE */ }
        
    li>a.y { width:auto; }

    a:hover.y { border-color:gray; background-color:#ebe6d8; color:black; }
    
    li.folder a:hover.y { background-color:#ebe6d8; }
    
ul,li,a { position: relative; display:block; margin: 0; padding:0; border:0; }
ul.x { position: relative; list-style-type: circle; width: auto; }
li.x { position: relative; list-style-type: circle; width: auto; }

Thanks for your help!!

If you want the bullets to show, drop list-style-type:none;. That's what you modify in the CSS to make the bullets go away when you restyle a list into a menu.

tim

So you mean change it in the CSS and like this?

ul,li,a { position: relative; display:block; margin: 0; padding:0; border:0; }
ul.x { position: relative; list-style-type: none; width: auto; }
li.x { position: relative; list-style-type: none; width: auto; }

or like this:

ul,li,a { position: relative; display:block; margin: 0; padding:0; border:0; }
ul.x { position: relative; width: auto; }
li.x { position: relative; width: auto; }

Either way it didn't work. LMK if you mean something else. Thanks!

Where you listed in your original post:

ul.y { width:150px; border:2px solid #9d9da1; background: #82B4D7; list-style:none; }

drop the list-style rule.

You should really check your HTML; there are numerous validation errors, most of which are coming from the use of deprecated code like font-face, bgcolor, marginwidth, etc. Those things are styled with CSS as well, not in the HTML. You're also putting naming multiple things with the same class name, which can mess with your syntax. I'd also strongly suggest dropping the table structure; there's nothing here you can't put together with more up-to-date coding.

tim

I think you misunderstood. This ul.y goes with the navigation. In which, I don't want bullets. So this would be correct right?
ul.y { width:150px; border:2px solid #9d9da1; background: #82B4D7; list-style:none; }

The ul.x is for the body text and that's where I want bullets.

Thanks for the validation heads up. I know there are errors and I just haven't got to them yet. Was trying to figure out this bullet thing.

Thanks again man.

If you give something a class name you use the name to specify your rules. For more specificity you can add the element and child elements like so:

.y {style rules}
.y ul{style rules}
.y ul li{style rules}
.y ul li a{style rules}

And again, wherever you want the bullets to show, don't use list-style:none; .

tim