I am reposting this question because the original 3-year-old thread is closed and the advice there, is no longer usable because, as the notices on taht screen say, "Since 3.6.5 PHP code cannot be used anymore in HTML/CSS Inserts."

May I ask for an update on doing this?

Thanks

What rectangular bullet?

please look at: http://www.donclarkemusicbox.simple-helix.net/

You mean the red box next to billy Holliday?
If so, that is the left border and set in the widget styling.

in style widgets I see how to change the color but I want to totally remove that object so the text is flush left to the line.

If there is a configuration there to do that. I am not seeing it and would appreciate advice on whatever i am missing.

Thank you for your help.

Just set the left border width to 0

Thanks. that worked.

While on this subject, I would like to introduce a half-line of space between the individual items in that same menu. Where is that configured?

I appreciate the help!

I'm not sure what you mean by a half line space but to add some space between the different list items for that particular widget you would use something like the following.

#categories-4 li {
    margin-bottom: 10px;
}