Title: Comment Textarea Above Fields
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Comment Textarea Above Fields

 *  Resolved [Fırat Akandere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fakandere/)
 * (@fakandere)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-textarea-above-fields/)
 * Hi,
    After using WordPress for a while I started designing my own theme. I need
   to move comment textarea above the fields. I checked comment_form function reference
   but could not find any solution for my issue. Is it possible to do it without
   hacking the WordPress core?

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-textarea-above-fields/#post-4007936)
 * You need to check [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_form](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_form)
   again and read about the arguments you can pass to the function.
 *  Thread Starter [Fırat Akandere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fakandere/)
 * (@fakandere)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-textarea-above-fields/#post-4007944)
 * Edit: Well not a really god way but i made empty `comment_field` argument and
   put its default value to `comment_notes_before` argument. At least it gives me
   what I want.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-textarea-above-fields/#post-4007950)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_form#Parameters](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/comment_form#Parameters)
 *  Thread Starter [Fırat Akandere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fakandere/)
 * (@fakandere)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-textarea-above-fields/#post-4007954)
 * Problem solved. But there should be a better way to do it instead of putting 
   textarea to the `comment_notes_before`
 * I wonder which parameter you were talking about. There is no legit way to do 
   it…
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-textarea-above-fields/#post-4007957)
 * Why? I’ve customised comment forms many times and comment_form() works just fine.
 *  Thread Starter [Fırat Akandere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fakandere/)
 * (@fakandere)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-textarea-above-fields/#post-4007963)
 * There is no legit way to move textarea (the big box where you write down your
   comment) above the fields (name/website/email). You can customize everything 
   like fields, form name, id etc. But changing the position of textarea, it does
   not exist.
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-textarea-above-fields/#post-4007967)
 * That can be achieved using pure CSS.
 *  Anonymous User 7658014
 * (@anonymized_7658014)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-textarea-above-fields/#post-4008245)
 * > There is no legit way to move textarea (the big box where you write down your
   > comment) above the fields (name/website/email). You can customize everything
   > like fields, form name, id etc. But changing the position of textarea, it does
   > not exist.
 * [@f](https://wordpress.org/support/users/f/)ırat Akandere This might be of interest
   for you: [https://gist.github.com/toscho/2553604](https://gist.github.com/toscho/2553604)
 * > That can be achieved using pure CSS.
 * [@esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) I’d like to see that. 😉
 *  Thread Starter [Fırat Akandere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fakandere/)
 * (@fakandere)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-textarea-above-fields/#post-4008250)
 * @glueckpress, thanks for the link!
 * > That can be achieved using pure CSS.
 * [@esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/) I’d like to see that too 😉

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 * Last reply from: [Fırat Akandere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fakandere/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comment-textarea-above-fields/#post-4008250)
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