Why is a white dot showing up to the left of my links widget?

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  denatb · Member · Jul 7, 2014 at 12:51 pm

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  I am having trouble with a link widget in the footer notice area.

  I added a links widget under the copyright notice. (The link is my name, Dena Testa Bray.)

  For some reason it shows a white dot to the left. I tried examining my CSS and studying things via Google’s developer tools but I could not find anything that is an obvious error on my part/that would create this. I am missing something…

  This is the CSS that is there now.

  #footer {
  background: #174A70;
  }

  #footer {
  text-shadow: none;
  }

  #footer a {
  color: #fffff;
  }

  #menu-social ul li a:before {
  background: #f1f7ec;
  color: #406b820;
  box-shadow: inset 1px 1px 1px #3e6b48, 1px 1px 1px #8EE5B9;
  }

  #footer a {
  text-shadow: none;
  color: #fff;
  }

  #footer,
  .copyright {
  text-shadow: none;
  color: #FFF;
  }

  I would love your input.

  Thank you.

  Dena

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  amightywp · Member · Jul 8, 2014 at 8:29 am

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  Hi Dena,

  The dot is an unordered list bullet point, as you are using a link widget to display your link. That widget displays links as unordered (bulleted) lists.

  Given what you are trying to do here, you may want to consider removing that widget altogether and instead expanding the text widget above it a little. Maybe have something like so:

  © 2014 Whippletree Yarn Shop. All rights Reserved.
  
  Site Design Assistance By <a href="http://www.denatestabray.net/" title="Offering Web Design & Site Maintenance Service for Creative People">Dena Testa Bray</a>

  It should give you the appearance you’re looking for without the fuss.

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  denatb · Member · Jul 8, 2014 at 10:12 am

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  Hi : Thank you for getting back to me.

  I tried putting the link in the text widget as you describe above. When I hit save it removes formatting, so the title is no longer a link….

  Any thoughts?

  D

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  amightywp · Member · Jul 8, 2014 at 10:42 am

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  Hi Dena,

  It looks like the link didn’t go in correctly previously. I’ve corrected that and put the previous link widget in with the inactive widgets. Let me know if this is what you were looking for!

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  denatb · Member · Jul 8, 2014 at 11:51 am

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  Perfect!

  Thank you so much.

  I really appreciate your help!

  Have a great day.

  Dena

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  amightywp · Member · Jul 8, 2014 at 12:06 pm

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  I’m happy to have helped! You have a great day too.