Title: Comment Reply Form Width
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Comment Reply Form Width

 *  Resolved [CallUp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/callup/)
 * (@callup)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-reply-form-width/)
 * When you click on the reply link to a comment, the javascript produces a new 
   form directly below the comment you’re replying to.
 * Is there a way to change the width of that dynamically produced reply form?
 * The reason being: my comments are nested, and so as the nested ‘children’ comments
   continue to get smaller. I’d like the dynamically produced reply forms to get
   correspondingly smaller in size. At the moment — especially in IE — the nested
   reply forms are as wide as the original comment form and it’s stretching into
   sidebar and forcing all the sidebar content to the bottom of the page.

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-reply-form-width/#post-1245151)
 * Tey adding something like
 * `textarea {width:95%;}`
 * to your stylesheet. If that doesn’t work, post a link to your site so people 
   can see the problem.
 *  Thread Starter [CallUp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/callup/)
 * (@callup)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-reply-form-width/#post-1245233)
 * Hi esmi,
 * Thanks for your response.
 * I tried changing from cols to width:95% like you have, and it didn’t change it.
 * Funny thing is any changes I make to textarea in CSS seems to be reflected in
   the original comment reply form, but when you click “reply to specific comment”
   the text area displayed remains too wide. I’ve looked at the source when the 
   offending text areas were displayed and it still showed width=”95%” but it isn’t
   displaying that way.
 * Here’s my live site so you can see:
 * [http://www.alterpolitics.com/politics/obamas-lobbyist-ban-a-white-house-aspiration-to-remain-unenforced/](http://www.alterpolitics.com/politics/obamas-lobbyist-ban-a-white-house-aspiration-to-remain-unenforced/)
 *  Thread Starter [CallUp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/callup/)
 * (@callup)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-reply-form-width/#post-1245242)
 * Selecting the “reply to” from the first comment always appears as it should. 
   It’s the “reply to” from nested comments 2, 3, … onward that displays too large
   of a text area.
 * When you reply to a nested comment going five to seven levels deep on IE — that’s
   when the sidebar drops to the bottom.
 *  Thread Starter [CallUp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/callup/)
 * (@callup)
 * [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-reply-form-width/#post-1245253)
 * After a lot of searching, I finally solved it. I had some conflicting CSS markup
   overriding the width of the textarea.
 * Thanks emsi for your help.

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 * [comment](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comment/)
 * [form](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/form/)
 * [nested](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/nested/)
 * [width](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/width/)

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-reply-form-width/#post-1245253)
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