Is there anyway to remove the left padding from a list? I have a navigation using lists just a standard list but its all off because of padding on the left side.

set ul padding & margin to 0.

I tried that but it does not seem to work I'm using Joomla I think its an issue with that

Only if something in another stylesheet overrides it.

or it could be a specificity problem.

set

ul li {
     margin:0;
     padding:0;
}

If that doesn't "work" post a URI so we can see the code in situ.