First off, you need to be aware that although they look like as if they are, these are not really made up of regular text fields; in fact the whole shebang is hypertext - in other words these are all links. Which Selim, sharp cookie extraordinaire that he is, figured out in a nano-second of course. So, as an example, if you want to change the line height, again scroll to the end of the widgets section inside the HTML editor, where again you need to find the line which says
/* Posts----------------------------------------------- */
before which (while you are still in the widgets section) you paste:
#PopularPosts1 li{
line-height: 140%;
}
And this will stop the text of your popular posts being all squished up in that horrible way. The value 140%, which is highlighted in black can of course be changed to whatever you wish it to be.
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