Trouble adding space between sidebar items

try using p>&nbsp</p or simply p></p / use < and > in front of p and after.

Thx for the quick reply! I added p>&nbsp</p and it did give me the space I wanted, but now in that space you can see p> on the blog itself. You can see it here: https://www.parenttalktoday.com.

<br /> moves text down a single line.
<p>Some text</p> is for paragraphs.
  is for spaces.

So you’re really wanting to use a combination of the last two:
<p>&nbsp;</p>

It worked! I’m putting that into my cheat sheet right now. THANKS to both of you.

They say code is poetry. That’s not quite the word I’d use! ??

Better to use CSS to change a property like margin, padding or line-height for the list item in the sidebar… The “heading” of a list of pages, for example, is the h2 element (assuming the default here, you can control this with the title_li param for wp_list_pages(); )INSIDE an <li> tag in an unordered list
<ul> which you CAN apply an id or class to, so a style rule like:

li h2 {
padding-bottom:1em;
}

would affect the space below the heading. If you want to add space BELOW a list of pages or categories, adjust the rule that applies to the list itself (</ul>) as in:

ul {
padding-bottom:30px;
}

It helps to understand CSS and honestly, the above is TOO generic. I’d add a class to the tag (eg. ul class=”pagelist”) and define the style’s bottom padding there.

Between the list item, define bottom padding or line-height for li.cat_item or li.page_item… it depends on what type of list.

What I wouldn’t do is use line breaks <br /> (which is what you would use for xhtml, not <br /> and not </br>. Nor would I use paragraph tags when not using paragraphical content. Remember, html elements should be semantically correct.

If you can point to a site with the examples in mind, a person could be more specific about how to get what you want.

HTH