WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Changing the appearance of the comment section http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section WordPress.com Forums » Topic: Changing the appearance of the comment section en Wed, 19 Jun 2013 10:36:23 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.1-alpha-2539 pixelcounter on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765379 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:02:01 +0000 pixelcounter 765379@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks, I like these stereo-answers!

]]> designsimply on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765378 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 19:00:03 +0000 designsimply 765378@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ lol :)

]]> thesacredpath on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765375 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:59:10 +0000 thesacredpath 765375@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ We're a tag team. It's like answer-squared.

:-)

]]> designsimply on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765374 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:58:10 +0000 designsimply 765374@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ @thesacredpath :) You beat me by seconds that time!

]]> designsimply on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765371 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:57:10 +0000 designsimply 765371@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Sure. The name "thread-even" is a class name, which is a type of selector in CSS. For more details, see http://en.support.wordpress.com/css-basics/

When a theme is designed, the developer can add any class names they like. When you use the Custom Design upgrade on WordPress.com, you use the class names from the theme you're running to build your custom CSS around it.

In WordPress, sometimes the classes are set by the core files an sometimes they are set or overridden in the themes. The "thread-even" class is set by WordPress and it applies to the top level of each set of comments and replies.

]]> thesacredpath on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765370 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:57:06 +0000 thesacredpath 765370@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ The comments section has several classes assigned to it in the markup (XHTML). This is done to allow separate styling of different types of comments (even, odd, depth level, etc.).

comment
even
thread-even
depth-1
highlander-comment

<li id="comment-41" class="comment even thread-even depth-1 highlander-comment">

It sort of all depends on what the theme author wants to do for styling on the comments - or for any other element as far as that goes.

]]> pixelcounter on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765357 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:41:22 +0000 pixelcounter 765357@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I was comparing your answers too and noticed ".thread-even" -code in the thesacredpath's answer. Please, would someone clarify what that does?

]]> thesacredpath on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765355 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:38:52 +0000 thesacredpath 765355@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Yeah, your .comment would be better would be a better solution me thinks.

]]> designsimply on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765350 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:35:06 +0000 designsimply 765350@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hi @thesacredpath! I like comparing our collision answers sometimes. :D

]]> pixelcounter on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765348 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:32:28 +0000 pixelcounter 765348@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Beautiful, thank you designsimply and thesacredpath.

]]> thesacredpath on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765347 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:32:05 +0000 thesacredpath 765347@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ G'day @designsimply!

]]> thesacredpath on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765338 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:21:54 +0000 thesacredpath 765338@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ This should do it, but adding a second or third comment might require some additional tweaking. Add a couple more test top level comments and see. Also add one while logged in to see if author comments are treated differently.

h3#comments {
display: none;
}

.thread-even {
background-color: transparent;
}
]]> designsimply on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765337 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:21:13 +0000 designsimply 765337@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ In the Kubrick theme:

To make the comment backgrounds transparent: 

.comment {
    background-color: transparent;
}

To get rid of the "2 Responses to “Comments:” text?:

h3#comments {
    display: none;
}
]]> pixelcounter on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765332 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:13:20 +0000 pixelcounter 765332@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Thanks for the reply thesacredpath,

the comments appear only in a separate page http://pixelcounterrr.com/leave-a-comment/

]]> thesacredpath on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765320 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 18:03:46 +0000 thesacredpath 765320@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ I don't see any comment section or comments and no 2 responses to comments text on this site: http://pixelcounter.wordpress.com/ .

]]> pixelcounter on "Changing the appearance of the comment section" http://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/changing-the-appearance-of-the-comment-section#post-765105 Thu, 08 Dec 2011 12:28:37 +0000 pixelcounter 765105@http://en.forums.wordpress.com/ Hello everyone,

I was wondering if there's a simple way to alter the white box of the comment section (http://pixelcounterrr.com/leave-a-comment/) so that it would be the same color as the background? And to get rid of that "2 Responses to “Comments:” text?

Thanks in advance,

Topi

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