Title: Smaller comments section
Last modified: August 24, 2016

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# Smaller comments section

 *  [Johnny2481](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny2481/)
 * (@johnny2481)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-resonar-smaller-comments-section/)
 * Hello there,
 * My blog has very large and quite obtrusive comments sections. I’m interested 
   in streamlining that section, get rid of all the html option.
 * All it needs is a title, “leave a comment” and then a box.
 * What’s the best method for this?

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 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-resonar-smaller-comments-section/#post-6098193)
 * There are two ways to remove the “allowed HTML tags” section:
 * CSS – [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-you-may-use-these-html-tags-from-comments?replies=11#post-5359979](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-you-may-use-these-html-tags-from-comments?replies=11#post-5359979)
 * Function – [https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-you-may-use-these-html-tags-from-comments?replies=11#post-5361255](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/remove-you-may-use-these-html-tags-from-comments?replies=11#post-5361255)
 * If you go the function route, you’ll need to use a child theme. If you go with
   the CSS method, you can use either a child theme or a custom CSS plugin. Whatever
   you do, don’t edit the theme files directly, otherwise your changes will be overwritten
   whenever the theme is updated.
 * Here are some child theme guides in case you haven’t made one before:
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes](http://codex.wordpress.org/Child_Themes)
   
   [http://op111.net/53/](http://op111.net/53/)
 *  Thread Starter [Johnny2481](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johnny2481/)
 * (@johnny2481)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-resonar-smaller-comments-section/#post-6098264)
 * Okay great, thank you.
 * I put the code in the “CSS Stylesheet editor” that i think comes with Jetpack.
   Does this operate like a child theme?
 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/theme-resonar-smaller-comments-section/#post-6098265)
 * Jetpack does come with a CSS editor, but looking at your site at thebanter.com.
   au it’s not clear that you activated it.
 * As long as you’re sure you added your custom CSS to the CSS editor that comes
   with Jetpack – the dashboard label calls it “Edit CSS” under Appearance – then
   it will override the theme’s CSS in a similar way to how it would in a child 
   theme, and your CSS tweaks will be protected when you update the theme.

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