Title: Reply button not working when this plugin is enabled
Last modified: June 26, 2017

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# Reply button not working when this plugin is enabled

 *  [getmechamot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/getmechamot/)
 * (@getmechamot)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reply-button-not-working-when-this-plugin-is-enabled/)
 * I’m using an older plugin that inserts a [@reply](https://wordpress.org/support/users/reply/)
   in the comment field and it works fine until I enable this plugin. Through some
   testing, I determined some info that may help as it seems like the other plugin
   is working correctly.
    When I click the Reply link, nothing appears to happen
   onscreen, but after doing that a few times, I clicked Duplicate to make a new
   Chrome browser tab and when I looked in the comment field, I saw multiple “@”
   links – one for each click.
 * So they work fine without this plugin enabled, and when I do enable it, I never
   see the results of clicking the reply button unless I duplicate the tab.
 * Any ideas? The plugin is old (we’ve kept it alive on our site) and has this suggestion
   but it didn’t work for me.
 * > your WordPress theme is not using the default id for the comments textarea (
   > which is comment). In the later case, check your comments.php file to find 
   > your textarea id, then open at-reply.php and replace all the document.getElementById(‘
   > comment’) with document.getElementById(‘YOUR_ID’).
 * I tried replacing ‘comment’ with ‘tinymce-comment-field’ but it had no effect.
 * Plugin: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/reply-to/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/reply-to/)
 * The weird thing is, on my slow test server, I can click on the reply link in 
   a comment before the TinyMCE buttons render and it shows up in the comment field,
   but once the buttons render, that doesn’t happen anymore.
 * So for some reason the comment container isn’t taking these links – please help!

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 *  Thread Starter [getmechamot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/getmechamot/)
 * (@getmechamot)
 * [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reply-button-not-working-when-this-plugin-is-enabled/#post-9263086)
 * Forgot to say, I did research this issue and the old issue says wait for a new
   version; that fix clearly didn’t fix this issue (which is plugin-related, not
   theme-)

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 * Last reply from: [getmechamot](https://wordpress.org/support/users/getmechamot/)
 * Last activity: [8 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reply-button-not-working-when-this-plugin-is-enabled/#post-9263086)
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