can i put the comment box up and not down on the page?
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hello
i need the comment box to be first and up, and not down the page, how can i do it?
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@dhaikoboy
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@raincoaster, I don’t think you can do it with CSS. I’ve tried something similar in the past and came to the conclusion that you would have to be able to hack the theme PHP script files to do that.
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Whether you could do it with CSS would depend on how the div’s were laid out and how the page elements were arranged in those div’s.
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Ah. thanks. I thought it might be possible using the same sort of misdirection as the Text Widget/Header Tab substitution.
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Not usually, but it depends on the CSS and how it is organized. In general though I have not had much luck changing the order of elements since the general order is set in the PHP files.
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If you want to move the comment box before the list of replies you can do something like this (preview it on raincoaster’s blog):
.comments {position:relative; padding-top:30em;} #respond {position:absolute; top:0;}First set the position property to relative for the entire “comments” div. You can then set the comment box itself to have absolute position and this will be calculated from the place of the containing “comments” div rather than the page itself. Move the comment box to the top and apply padding to the containiner so that there is enough space. As long as you can select those two parts of the page with CSS you should be in business so applying it to other themes shouldn’t be a problem. I hope that made sense!
lh
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Hmmm, I’ll have to look at that. The problem I was seeing in the post was that the elements I wanted to move were not in the same div, and I know of at least one case where the comment box/fields was not inside the same div as the list of comments.
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Well position:absolute; will offset content with respect to the first non-statically position element further up the node tree. This means its can be just a case of finding which element you need to set to position:relative; so you can offset from there. You’re right in that, unfortunately, this might not always be the case. If you find any tricky themes then point them out and I’ll take a look too.
lh
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