Title: Editing “Comment” area HTML
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Editing “Comment” area HTML

 *  [bcamp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcamp/)
 * (@bcamp)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-comment-area-html/)
 * hello! WP noob here. I’m in the process of altering the design of my WP site 
   from the default to my own design. I need to alter the comment area (form etc)
   that shows up below an article. Where does this code reside? I can’t find it 
   for the life of me. Is it an include or is it all built on the fly by PHP (please
   tell me that’s not so!).

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 *  [Beel](https://wordpress.org/support/users/beel/)
 * (@beel)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-comment-area-html/#post-57872)
 * wp-comments.php
 *  [Daynah](https://wordpress.org/support/users/phpprincess/)
 * (@phpprincess)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-comment-area-html/#post-57881)
 * You can also edit the css classes for the comments as well. 🙂
    Some are: #commentlist,#
   commentlist li, input, textarea
 *  [junesix](https://wordpress.org/support/users/junesix/)
 * (@junesix)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-comment-area-html/#post-57885)
 * If you chmod 666 the wp-comments.php file, you can make changes to it directly
   within WP. Click on Templates, and under Common Files, there is a link to the
   Comments template.
 *  Thread Starter [bcamp](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcamp/)
 * (@bcamp)
 * [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-comment-area-html/#post-57888)
 * Perfect! Thank you! 🙂

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 * Last activity: [21 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/editing-comment-area-html/#post-57888)
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