Title: Resizing the reply form
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Resizing the reply form

 *  [sydlexia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sydlexia/)
 * (@sydlexia)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resizing-the-reply-form/)
 * There is a problem with the reply form for comments in my blog. As soon as you
   start typing, the size of the reply form shifts so that it is bigger than it 
   should be or needs to be. Try it out here: [http://www.sydlexia.com/news/?p=77#comments](http://www.sydlexia.com/news/?p=77#comments)
 * I have known about this for awhile, but I was recently motivated to fix it.

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 *  [techwench](https://wordpress.org/support/users/techwench/)
 * (@techwench)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resizing-the-reply-form/#post-214622)
 * Can’t see it. Have to be logged in to comment.
 * But (I’m guessing) it probably only happens in IE, and it’s probably happening
   because the textarea width is set to 100%.
 * Change this line in the stylesheet:
 * `#commentform textarea {`
    ` width: 100%; <------------------` `}`
 * Change that to a fixed width…like 400px
 *  Thread Starter [sydlexia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/sydlexia/)
 * (@sydlexia)
 * [21 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/resizing-the-reply-form/#post-214654)
 * Thanks, that worked great.

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