How to remove a symbol near the text in menu!! pls help

Having the same issue. How did you fix it? Menu down arrow and the home breadcrumb icons don’t render properly.

If you don’t make child pages, the problem will go away.

This may be related to my post http://www.cryoutcreations.eu/forums/t/have-the-elusive-font-characters-been-moved-around

Do you have any hard coded CSS (e.g. in a child theme) that is defining what character is displayed after the menu item? I found that in successive versions this has mysteriously changed – apparently because of a change in the Elusive font that is used for symbols (which seems to me to be a very unusual thing to do if my interpretation is correct).

My guess is that you’re effectively seeing the ‘opposite’ of what I’ve been seeing. We prefer to keep all our CSS in one file because it improves performance, so have to merge in the Tempera CSS manually each time we do an update. I was seeing the odd character in the menu because it appears that the font has changed and our existing CSS was pointing to the old character position, which now has a map marker in it. After merging the new CSS the correct down arrow appears.

In your case perhaps you are using a new version of the theme’s CSS but picking up an old version of the font (since you’re seeing a different character). My guess is that there is a cached version of the old font somewhere – either on your host’s filesystem or in your browser. I would suggest clearing your browser’s cache in the first instance, then going in via FTP and checking the date and time of the files in the theme’s fonts directory in case the update didn’t complete properly.

Sorry I forgot to put the printscreen to illustrate

I have found a way to remove the ugly symbol. It’s not completely satisfactory because I would have liked to get the down chevron symbol back, but at least it works.
It’s simple: instead of a symbol, you put nothing.
So in the Tempera misc settings -> custom css, you paste this code:

#access > .menu > ul > li > a:not(:only-child) span:after {
    font-family:"Elusive";
    content: '';
    position: absolute; 
    right: 5px;
    top: 10px;
    z-index: 251;
	-moz-transition:all .2s ease-in-out;
	-o-transition:all .2s ease-in-out;
	-webkit-transition:all .2s ease-in-out;
	transition:all .2s ease-in-out;
} 

Since the content tag is empty, nothing is displayed. Probably it’s not necessary to paste all this code (it comes from the original tempera CSS), but I don’t want to mess up too much.

Hi,

Ever since the update, I have also had this problem. The nice V symbol has been replaced with a thick ugly back arrow. I also need child pages, and I’m very sorry Zed, but this is theme related. I access the site through one and only URL, so i really don’t understand how what you said would make any difference, Please fix it. For now I will try Christine’s solution.

Hi,
When updating to 1.2 I had the strange arrow on Firefox while on IE I had a strange symbol like the one which shows location on a map. Moreover I lost the slider on IE (?!).
I refreshed both browsers (Ctrl+F5 or Ctrl+R) just like Zed said and everything came to place.
Thanks Zed!!