Title: Comments text area width
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Comments text area width

 *  Resolved [malkov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malkov/)
 * (@malkov)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-text-area-width/)
 * I’d like to make comment text box wider. I’m using prana theme.
 * I tried to modify style.css file but nothing it seems to work.
    I can’t figure
   out how to fix this issue.
 * Any help is much appreciated.
 * You can check width text area on the link below:
    [http://bit.ly/1jEm6As](http://bit.ly/1jEm6As)
 * P.S. I just did install disqus but problem remain.

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 *  Thread Starter [malkov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malkov/)
 * (@malkov)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-text-area-width/#post-4743136)
 * I found the problem but I dont know how to fix it.
 * The issue comes when I change this:
 *     ```
       |------------------------
       | =Content/Sidebar
       |------------------------
       */
   
       #content,
       #sidebar {
       }
   
       #sidebar {
       }
       ```
   
 * into this
 *     ```
       |------------------------
       | =Content/Sidebar
       |------------------------
       */
   
       #content,
       #sidebar {
           width: 300px;
   
       }
       .type-post, .type-page, {
           width: 640px; /* vary to meet requirements*/
       }
       ```
   
 * I need this change to make sidebar wider.
 *  [mlddev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mlddev/)
 * (@mlddev)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-text-area-width/#post-4743147)
 * For the comments looks like you could start with adding width…
 *     ```
       #comments {
         width: 640px; /* same width as your post content */
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [malkov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malkov/)
 * (@malkov)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-text-area-width/#post-4743178)
 * Hi mlddev, thanks for your help.
 * Unluckly this way it doesn’t work. The text area it becomes wider but I can only
   see half of it.
 * [Here](http://pistolpocket.it/img/text-area.jpg) what happens.
 * I think I should add something in this code:
 *     ```
       .type-post, .type-page, {
           width: 640px; /* vary to meet requirements*/
       ```
   
 * Something like this:
 *     ```
       .type-post, .type-page, textearea {
           width: 640px; /* vary to meet requirements*/
       ```
   
 * In this way of course it doesn’t work.
 * Thanks again.
 *  [mlddev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mlddev/)
 * (@mlddev)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-text-area-width/#post-4743184)
 * malkov,
 * I may not be clear on what you want to do. The #comments div is what wraps your
   comment form at the bottom of post pages. I see you have added the width and 
   it looks fine to me except for a bit of overflow being hidden. If you add the
   following it should fix that.
 *     ```
       #respond #commentform {
         margin: 0 2% 0 0;
       }
       ```
   
 * You can also play with the width of:
 *     ```
       .comment-form-comment #respond textarea {
         width: 95%; /* adjust to your prefference */
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [malkov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malkov/)
 * (@malkov)
 * [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-text-area-width/#post-4743186)
 * Thank you very much mlddev!
 * It works perfectly.
 * Thanks again.
 * Cheers.

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
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 * Last reply from: [malkov](https://wordpress.org/support/users/malkov/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/comments-text-area-width/#post-4743186)
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