NancyN

You are SOOOO right! Thanks for the quick correction. I thought I had tried every syntax variation, but I missed that one. Thanks greatly!

PS: I didn’t mean to imply that WordPress was at fault – I LOVE this platform!

Found the problem; I was using z-index incorrectly. Thanks for pointing me in the right direction!

Thanks! I suspected as much and went through my CSS, but will look again. [Though I don’t see how CSS could render a link inactive.]

OK, I found the code in my theme’s functions.php that makes this happen, I’m moving forward. Thanks for your help.

If not, then why are the class and ID for my text boxes different from yours? My code (from https://gendertalk.com/wp/, my early prototype page):

<div class="widgetready" id="widgetwidget_text">
<h3>Resources</h3>
<ul class="arrow"><li>
<div class="textwidget">
<table class="sidetable" cellspacing="0">
<tr><td class="sidemenu" id="sidecontent3" colspan="2">
<ul><li><a href="https://www.gendertalk.com/info/resource/general-info.shtml">Transgender</a>
</li><li><a href="https://www.gendertalk.com/info/resource/glbt-activism.shtml">GLBT</a>
</li><li><a href="https://www.gendertalk.com/info/resource/intersex.shtml">Intersex</a>
</li><li><a href="https://www.gendertalk.com/info/resource/womens.shtml">Women's</a>
</li><li><a href="https://www.gendertalk.com/info/resource/media-activism.shtml">Media &amp; Activism</a>
</li></ul>
</td></tr></table>
</div>
</li></ul></div>

What theme are you using? Perhaps I’ve chosen the wrong starting point…

thanks, but already did that. All text widgets have the same class (“widgetready”) and ID (“widgetwidget_text”). What I need is some way to generate differing IDs for them. Interestingly, the content of the text boxes gets varying ids (sidecontent1, sidecontent2, etc) but not the title. So the code that generates the title just needs to function like the code that generates the content. But I don’t want to hack into the code if I can avoid it…