Title: comment_form
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# comment_form

 *  Resolved [Matthew Taylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtphoto/)
 * (@mrtphoto)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment_form-2/)
 * I’m using the Underscores theme(by Automattic) with a custom post type with comments
   enabled. The comments form is showing up.. but without the opening and closing
   <form> tags. The form fields are there.. as well as the submit button.. but no
   actual form tag.
    The comments.php is still default. The command is the default`
   comment_form();` without any options. Any idea where to start looking for what
   is wrong?
 *     ```
       <div id="comments" class="comments-area">
       	<div id="respond">
       		<h3 id="reply-title">Leave a Reply <small><a rel="nofollow" id="cancel-comment-reply-link" href="/case/patient-1521/#respond" style="display:none;">Cancel reply</a></small></h3>
   
       		<p class="logged-in-as">Logged in as <a href="https://digitalsmilelab.com/wp-admin/profile.php">Matthew</a>. <a href="https://digitalsmilelab.com/logout/?_wpnonce=61f100e60b" title="Log out of this account">Log out?</a></p>
       		<p class="comment-form-comment"><label for="comment">Comment</label><textarea id="comment" name="comment" cols="45" rows="8" aria-required="true"></textarea></p>
       		<p class="form-allowed-tags">You may use these <abbr title="HyperText Markup Language">HTML</abbr> tags and attributes:  <code><a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong> </code></p>
       		<p class="form-submit">
       			<input name="submit" type="submit" id="submit" value="Post Comment">
       			<input type="hidden" name="comment_post_ID" value="1521" id="comment_post_ID">
       			<input type="hidden" name="comment_parent" id="comment_parent" value="0">
       		</p>
       			<input type="hidden" id="_wp_unfiltered_html_comment_disabled" name="_wp_unfiltered_html_comment" value="8eb533c9ea">
       			<script>
       				(function(){if(window===window.parent){document.getElementById('_wp_unfiltered_html_comment_disabled').name='_wp_unfiltered_html_comment';}})();
       			</script>
       	</div><!-- #respond -->
       </div>
       ```
   

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 *  Thread Starter [Matthew Taylor](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mrtphoto/)
 * (@mrtphoto)
 * [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment_form-2/#post-3930348)
 * The custom post type I made is rather interactive and contains several forms.
   
   The way I was including the PHP files for one of the forms left out a form closing
   tag. I think through some WordPress magic the form tags from the new form the
   comment_form() was trying to create was stripped. I discovered this when I moved
   the comment form to the top of the page and it worked.

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 * Last activity: [12 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment_form-2/#post-3930348)
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