Title: Comment_form customising issue
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Comment_form customising issue

 *  [luc9999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luc9999/)
 * (@luc9999)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment_form-customising-issue/)
 * I have been trying to figuire this out all evening and can’t make sense and am
   not really sure what to search for on search engines. I am pretty much a noob
   at wordpress. I know HTML, CSS and I can customise a basic WP template, it’s 
   just this last bit on the comments area that I need to customise which I am having
   trouble with.
 * This is what I have in my comments.php in my theme
 * _[code moderated according to [forum rules ](http://codex.wordpress.org/Forum_Welcome)-
   please use the [pastebin](http://pastebin.com/)]_
 * This is how it looks on my wordpress blog: [http://millajovovichfan.com/lucinda/?p=23#comments](http://millajovovichfan.com/lucinda/?p=23#comments)
 * I have managged to customise the comments_list with a callback that I customised
   in the functions.php file which is in the themes folder.
 * I have been trying to do something similar with the comment_form because you 
   can see how it looks at the moment - the default look.
 * So, my question is do you also use a 'function thing' for this, like you do with
   the comments_list ? because the way I managed to code that to how I like is because
   I used the default function for the comments_list and took the tags(I don't know
   if that's what theyre called, but anyway - the codes like '<?php comment_text();?
   >'
 * This is how the area of my functions.php for the comments_list looks
 *     ```
       function mytheme_comment( $comment, $args, $depth ) {
       	$GLOBALS['comment'] = $comment;
       	switch ( $comment->comment_type ) :
       		case '' :
       	?>
       						<!--comments--> <tr><td class="maincontent_postcomments"><div>
       <div class="comments_datenameedit"><?php
       /* translators: 1: date, 2: time */
       printf( __( '%1$s', 'twentyten' ), get_comment_date(), get_comment_time() ); ?></div>
       <div class="comments_datenameedit"><?php printf( __( 'Comment by %s' ), sprintf( '%s', get_comment_author_link() ) ); ?></a></div>
       <div class="comments_datenameedit"><a href="http://"><?php edit_comment_link( __( '(Edit)', 'twentyten' ), ' ' );
       ?></a></div>
       <div class="comments_comment"><?php comment_text(); ?></div>
   
       <div class="comments_datenameedit"><a href="http://"><?php comment_reply_link( array_merge( $args, array( 'depth' => $depth, 'max_depth' => $args['max_depth'] ) ) ); ?></a></div>
   
       </div>
   
       						</td></tr>	<!-- #comment-##  -->
       ```
   
 * I get confused because in the codex files it says that the source is in wp-includes
   but I need to have the customisation of it in the theme folder obviously - I 
   just don't know how to do it.
 * Because I have customised the rest of the template, I'm sure I could learn how
   to do it.
 * Thanks for any help!!

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 * [comment_form](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/comment_form/)
 * [functions](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/functions/)

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 * Last reply from: [luc9999](https://wordpress.org/support/users/luc9999/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment_form-customising-issue/)
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