Title: comment form causing strange css behavior
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# comment form causing strange css behavior

 *  [tmountjr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tmountjr/)
 * (@tmountjr)
 * [19 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-form-causing-strange-css-behavior/)
 * On my site ([http://www.mountyscorner.com/blog](http://www.mountyscorner.com/blog))
   I’m seeing some strange behavior. The main blog index.php page looks fine, but
   when IE users click into a page controlled by single.php, the grey bar to the
   left of the post jumps about 20 px to the left. This behavior isn’t happening
   in any other browser on any other platform that I’ve tested – just all versions
   of IE in Windows. Before you ask, both the HTML and CSS validate.
 * When I started playing in comments.php, I found that if I set the `cols` property
   of the comment text area to 60, the following would happen:
    1. the grey bar would end up in the right position
    2. the textarea would sit right at the edge of the commentarea div
    3. there would be a patch of blank space under the “allowed tags” section before
       the textarea showed up
 * If I set the cols to 59, everything would line up properly vertically, but the
   grey bar would shift to the left.
 * Interestingly enough, those bubbles on the sidebar seem to determine how much
   whitespace shows up (the [+/-] collapses and expands each individual bubble).
   So if I collapse enough of them, everything again lines up just right, with the
   grey bar in the correct position.
 * So I’m guessing that the sidebar (floated right) is exacerbating the problem.
   I tried setting the width of the comment_area – I got to 69% before the grey 
   bar started shifting again. Apparently something is overlapping with that sidebar?
   Whatever the problem is, I can’t find it, and I’ve spent a few hours digging 
   through all my CSS and included files. Can one of you masters take a fresh look
   at it and figure out what’s happening?

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