wordpress comments DIV customization
can someone please help me customize this stubborn comments div in my wordpress layout?
http://rohitkumar.org/blog/index.php?p=28#comments
this is how the comments appear....i want to move the leave a comment heading to the left and wrap a 10 px margin around the whole div
index.php:
Code:
<?php
/* Don't remove this line. */
require('./wp-blog-header.php');
?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head profile="http://gmpg.org/xfn/1">
<title><?php bloginfo('name'); ?><?php wp_title(); ?></title>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=<?php bloginfo('charset'); ?>" />
<meta name="generator" content="WordPress <?php bloginfo('version'); ?>" /> <!-- leave this for stats -->
<style type="text/css" media="screen">
@import url( <?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-layout.css );
</style>
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" media="print" href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/print.css" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/rss+xml" title="RSS 2.0" href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="text/xml" title="RSS .92" href="<?php bloginfo('rss_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="alternate" type="application/atom+xml" title="Atom 0.3" href="<?php bloginfo('atom_url'); ?>" />
<link rel="pingback" href="<?php bloginfo('pingback_url'); ?>" />
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly&format=link'); ?>
<?php //comments_popup_script(); // off by default ?>
<?php wp_head(); ?>
</head>
<body>
<div id="rap">
<h1 id="header"><a href="<?php bloginfo('url'); ?>"><?php bloginfo('name'); ?></a></h1>
<div id="content">
<?php if ($posts) : foreach ($posts as $post) : start_wp(); ?>
<?php the_date('','<h2>','</h2>'); ?>
<div class="post">
<h3 class="storytitle" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>"><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link: <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h3>
<div class="meta"><?php _e("Filed under:"); ?> <?php the_category() ?> — <?php the_author() ?> @ <?php the_time() ?> <?php edit_post_link(); ?></div>
<div class="storycontent">
<?php the_content(); ?>
</div>
<div class="feedback">
<?php wp_link_pages(); ?>
<?php comments_popup_link(__('Comments (0)'), __('Comments (1)'), __('Comments (%)')); ?>
</div>
<!--
<?php trackback_rdf(); ?>
-->
<?php include(ABSPATH . 'wp-comments.php'); ?>
</div>
<?php endforeach; else: ?>
<p><?php _e('Sorry, no posts matched your criteria.'); ?></p>
<?php endif; ?>
</div>
<div id="menu">
<ul>
<?php get_links_list(); ?>
<li id="categories"><?php _e('Categories:'); ?>
<ul>
<?php wp_list_cats(); ?>
</ul>
</li>
<li id="search">
<label for="s"><?php _e('Search:'); ?></label>
<form id="searchform" method="get" action="<?php echo $PHP_SELF; ?>">
<div>
<input type="text" name="s" id="s" size="15" /><br />
<input type="submit" name="submit" value="<?php _e('Search'); ?>" />
</div>
</form>
</li>
<li id="archives"><?php _e('Archives:'); ?>
<ul>
<?php wp_get_archives('type=monthly'); ?>
</ul>
</li>
<li id="calendar">
<?php get_calendar(); ?>
</li>
<li id="other"><?php _e('Other:'); ?>
<ul>
<li><a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-login.php"><?php _e('Login'); ?></a></li>
<li><a href="<?php echo get_settings('siteurl'); ?>/wp-register.php"><?php _e('Register'); ?></a></li>
</ul>
</li>
<li id="meta"><?php _e('Meta:'); ?>
<ul>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('Syndicate this site using RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('<abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr> 2.0'); ?></a></li>
<li><a href="<?php bloginfo('comments_rss2_url'); ?>" title="<?php _e('The latest comments to all posts in RSS'); ?>"><?php _e('Comments <abbr title="Really Simple Syndication">RSS</abbr> 2.0'); ?></a></li>
<li><a href="http://validator.w3.org/check/referer" title="<?php _e('This page validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional'); ?>"><?php _e('Valid <abbr title="eXtensible HyperText Markup Language">XHTML</abbr>'); ?></a></li>
<li><a href="http://wordpress.org/" title="<?php _e('Powered by WordPress; state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform.'); ?>">WP</a></li>
</ul>
</li>
</ul>
</div>
</div>
<p class="credit"><!--<?php echo $wpdb->num_queries; ?> queries. <?php timer_stop(1); ?> seconds. --> <cite><?php echo sprintf(__("Powered by <a href='http://wordpress.org' title='%s'><strong>WordPress</strong></a>"), __("Powered by WordPress, state-of-the-art semantic personal publishing platform")); ?></cite></p>
</body>
</html>
css layout:
Code:
/*
VerySimple - Style for Wordpress
by Gary Rogers ([email protected])
Licensed under the Creative Commons License
(http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/)
** NOTE **
Not all Styles are used here, but they all exist in Alex's sample
page, so they remain for reference.
*/
body {
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
font-family: 'Georgia';
font-size: 12pt;
}
blockquote {
margin-left: 20px;
color: #000;
}
a img {
border: none;
}
code {
font-family: Monaco, 'Courier New', Courier, monospace;
font-size: 10pt;
color: #000;
}
h2 {
font-size: 12pt;
margin-top: 10px;
color: #000;
text-align: right;
}
#rap {
width: 900px;
margin-left: 25px;
margin-right: 25px;
}
#header {
font-size: 36pt;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: center;
margin-bottom: 40px;
}
#header a {
text-decoration: none;
color: #000;
}
#header a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}
#content {
width: 750px;
}
.post {
border: 1px solid #000;
margin: 25px;
}
.storytitle {
font-size: normal;
font-weight: bold;
margin-left: 10px;
margin-bottom: 2px;
}
.storytitle a {
text-decoration: none;
color: #000;
}
.meta {
font-size: x-small;
margin: 0px;
padding-left: 10px;
margin-bottom: 2px;
}
.meta ul {
display: inline;
list-style: none;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
.meta li {
display: inline;
}
.post-categories {
font-style: normal;
}
.storycontent {
margin: 10px
}
.storycontent img {
margin-right: 15px;
}
.feedback {
font-size: normal;
text-align: right;
padding-right: 10px;
margin-bottom: 20px;
}
#commentform input, #commentform textarea {
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid #000;
margin: 10px;
}
.postcomment {
text-align: left;
margin: 10px;
}
#commentform textarea {
width: 90%;
margin: 10px;
}
ol#comments li p {
font-size: 100%;
margin: 10px;
}
.credit {
width: 700px;
margin-left: auto;
margin-right: auto;
font-size: x-small;
text-align: center;
padding-top: 10px;
}
#menu {
position: absolute;
top: 121px;
margin-left: 780px;
font-size: normal;
width: 175px;
}
#menu a img {
padding: 3px;
}
#menu ul {
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0px;
padding: 0px;
}
#menu ul li {
font-weight: bold;
margin-top: 10px;
}
#menu ul li p {
font-weight: normal;
}
#menu ul li ul {
font-weight: normal;
margin-top: 4px;
margin-left: 0px;
padding-left: 10px;
}
#menu ul li ul li {
text-indent: 0px;
font-weight: normal;
padding: 0px;
margin: 0px;
margin-top: 0px;
}
#wordpress {
font-style: normal;
}
#categories {
}
#search {
}
#archives {
}
#calendar {
font-weight: bold;
text-align: left;
}
#wp-calendar {
font-weight: normal;
padding-left: 10px
}
#wp-calendar caption {
color: #000;
font-size: normal;
font-weight: bold;
text-align: left;
}
#prev {
}
#pad {
}
#today {
background: #CCC;
}
#other {
}
#style {
}
Reverend!!! Save Meee!!!!
reverend,
cud please have a look at this page's comment list in ie6 and firefox both and tell me why they appear so different in the 2 browsers...?
