text-decoration: none not working on ul

Question

I've seen a lot of questions relating to this subject but none of them answered my question. I am making a sidebar for a site and I'm trying to make the links in boxes that are the same width as the sidebar, have just a little padding, maybe 10-15px and a tiny bit of space between each. Maybe 3px. But I can't seem to get text-decoration: none; to work no matter what I've tried.

This is the most successful code I've gotten so far:

HTML

<div id= "sidebar">
    <h3>Navigation Links</h3>
    <div id= "sidelinks">
        <ul>
            <li><a href= "#">Home</a></li>
            <li><a href= "#">Biography</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
</div>

CSS

#sidebar {
    background: #464646;
    width: 250px;
    height: 1000px;
    margin-left: 50px;
    border-radius: 15px;
}
h3 {
    font-family: 'Coda', cursive;
    color: white;
    background: #6B6B6B;
    font-size: 24px;
    text-align: center;
    padding: 15px 0 8px 0;
    border-top-left-radius: 15px;
    border-top-right-radius: 15px;
}
#sidelinks {
    font-family: 'Armata', sans-serif;
    font-size: 25px;
    text-decoration: none;
    color: white;
    background-color: #4D4D4D;
    padding: 10px;
    position: relative;
}

Answer 1

Removing the text-decoration and setting the colour is easy

#sidelinks a {
    color:black; 
    text-decoration:none;
}

So is removing the dots

#sidelinks ul {
    list-style:none;
    padding:0;
    margin:0;
}

If you look at the CSS you posted none of it was actually targeting <a> or <ul> so not sure why you were expecting other style than the default ones.

The fiddle doesn't have everything but it should send you in the right direction: http://jsfiddle.net/eNUpJ/