Whiting out comments

laurafern · Member · Feb 14, 2007 at 5:43 pm
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Hi, I’m new around here, and to CSS — I am using the Treba theme, and have been playing around with editing a few things. I want to get rid of the footers on all the pages that say “comments are closed,” — this site isn’t really going to be for blogging purposes — and I turned them white (invisible) on the front page, but I can’t seem to make it happen on all the additional pages. Can anyone help me?
drmike · Member · Feb 14, 2007 at 5:45 pm
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Link to the blog in question please. We gotta tell you want to change by seeing it. :)
sunburntkamel · Member · Feb 14, 2007 at 8:08 pm
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usually a simple
```
#respond, #comments { display: none; }
```
will work better than ‘whiting them out’
drmike · Member · Feb 14, 2007 at 8:18 pm
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Agreed. Wanted to make sure we were telling them the right classes though. :)
sunburntkamel · Member · Feb 14, 2007 at 8:32 pm
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yeah, i’m totally guessing. it’s pretty rare to have something other than that, though, since the comment link on the front page depends on those ID’s
laurafern · Member · Feb 15, 2007 at 2:33 am
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Oops, I didn’t reply all day.

Can you tell I am a newbie to this by my thought that “whiting it out” would be better? =)

It’s actually not my blog (laurafern.wordpress.com), it’s a friend’s new site for her personal chef business — very much in progress — at privatepalate.wordpress.com.

Sunburnt — where generally do I insert that line you put there.

I appreciate the help!
drmike · Member · Feb 15, 2007 at 2:49 pm
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*chuckle* This is why I always try to get a link so we can see. :)

Follow sun’s instructions but the bit you want to block out is ‘nocomments’. Should be:
```
#nocomments { display: none; }
```
Hope this helps,
-drmike
sunburntkamel · Member · Feb 15, 2007 at 4:11 pm
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you’ll just want to insert drmike’s CSS at the end of the Edit CSS box

actually, you may also want to add .commentblock:
```
#nocomments, .commentblock {display: none;}
```
drmike · Member · Feb 15, 2007 at 4:37 pm
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I was looking at that as well but they just said that they wanted the text whited out. I didn’t know if it was used elsewhere or if they allowed comments on posts.
laurafern · Member · Feb 15, 2007 at 5:38 pm
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Thanks — I added those two lines:

#nocomments, .commentblock {display: none;}

#nocomments { display: none; }

And it still shows “comments are closed” — what am I doing wrong? I just pasted them into the already slightly edited CSS… does it have to go in a certain place in the CSS?
drmike · Member · Feb 15, 2007 at 5:55 pm
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Wouldn’t it actually be #commentblock since it’s only used once? (Asking here as I don’t use the theme myself and hoping Sun speaks up)

I’d go ahead and remove:
```
#nocomments {
display:none;
}
```
It doesn’t need to be in there twice. I don’t think it would affect anything. Just being picky.
laurafern · Member · Feb 15, 2007 at 6:37 pm
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Success! Thanks!
drmike · Member · Feb 15, 2007 at 6:56 pm
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Cool :)
sunburntkamel · Member · Feb 15, 2007 at 9:45 pm
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well, it does occur only once, so they should have made it an ID, but in this case, they made it a class. ID’s are #, classes are .

the CSS i posted was misspelled, it should be .commentSblock

that’s why it didn’t work. sorry about that.
drmike · Member · Feb 15, 2007 at 9:52 pm
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ID’s are #, classes are .

I’m glad you can keep that straight. I certainly can’t.
sunburntkamel · Member · Feb 16, 2007 at 3:52 am
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i can now. it confused me for years. now my brain’s been pretty much completely assimilated. i even have dreams in CSS.

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