How to crrectly write an echo command?

Hi Guys,

I am working on a WordPress theme and am coming up with an issue with widgets.

I have a widget that I want to style individually into a CSS drop down box.

I want to add a ul div above the widget and the only option I have to do this is globally, for all widgets...

I have went into the actual plugin's code and discovered that there may be a way for to manyually add my <ul> but this code is present:

 // These lines generate our output. Widgets can be very complex
    // but as you can see here, they can also be very, very simple.
    echo $before_widget . $before_title . $options['Title'] . $after_title;

Code (markup):

I need to set $before_widget so that the <ul ="idname"> tag is added before the widget but I do not know how to correctly amend the line of code above to do this, can someone please help? As you can see, I am certainly no .php expert or even novice for that matter

 

Huh?

echo displays text to the screen.
You can set variables with $before_widget = 'text';

 

You can find difference examples of echo here.

 

Create a variable :

Echo it :

 

$before_widget .= 'your code here';

Note the dot, that puts the string after the content of $before_widget.

 

Thanks for your help guys, I got it working now