Some people might have noticed that the 'Reply' button of threaded comment is not working. For that, revert widgets temples to default and re follow the given instructions in this post.
Playing with CSS and making your blog cool is hard task to do. Considering this, I have created CSS specially designed for threaded comment system of Blogger. You can watch the demo yourself in this blog (in the comment section). If you like that comment section style the follow the following instructions to use it in your Blogger blog.
Threaded Comment with Cool Layout Style
First you need to enabled threaded comment system. (If you already enabled, then please ignore this step).
Go to Edit HTML page and find the following line of code:
<b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
Replace the above code with the following:
<b:if cond='data:post.showThreadedComments'>
<b:include data='post' name='threaded_comments'/>
<b:else/>
<b:include data='post' name='comments'/>
</b:if>
Please note: If you found 2 codes lines of given spinet, then you have to replace both.
Now search for ]]></b:skin> and just above that paste the following CSS codes:
.comments {
clear: both;
margin-top: 10px;
margin-bottom: 0px;
line-height: 1em;
}
.comments .comments-content {
font-size: 12px;
margin-bottom: 16px;
font-family: Verdana;
font-weight: normal;
text-align:left;
line-height: 1.4em;
}
.comments .continue a, .comments .comment .comment-actions a {
display:inline;
font-family:Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;
font-size:12px;
padding: 2px 5px;
text-decoration: none;
text-shadow:0 1px 1px rgba(0,0,0,.3);
color:#FFF;
-webkit-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
-moz-box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
box-shadow: 0 1px 2px rgba(0,0,0,.2);
-webkit-border-radius: 3px;
-moz-border-radius: 3px;
border-radius: 3px;
margin-right: 10px;
border: 1px solid #3079ED;
background: #0066FF;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#0099FF), to(#009999));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #0099FF, #009999);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#0099FF', endColorstr='#009999');
}
.comments .continue a:hover, .comments .comment .comment-actions a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
background:#0099FF;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#009999), to(#0099FF));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #009999, #0099FF);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#009999', endColorstr='#0099FF');
}
.comments .continue a:active, .comments .comment .comment-actions a:active {
position: relative;
top:1px;
background: -webkit-gradient(linear, left top, left bottom, from(#0066FF), to(#0099CC));
background: -moz-linear-gradient(top, #0066FF, #0099CC);
filter: progid:DXImageTransform.Microsoft.gradient(startColorstr='#0066FF', endColorstr='#0099CC');
}
.comments .comments-content .comment-thread ol {
list-style-type: none;
padding: 0;
text-align: none;
}
.comments .comments-content .inline-thread {
padding: 0.5em 1em 0 1em;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment-thread {
margin: 8px 0px 0px 0px;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment-thread:empty {
display: none;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment-replies {
margin-top: 1em;
margin-left: 40px; font-size:12px;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment {
padding-bottom:8px;
margin-bottom: 0px
}
.comments .comments-content .comment:first-child {
padding-top:16px;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment:last-child {
border-bottom:0;
padding-bottom:0;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment-body {
position:relative;
}
.comments .comments-content .user {
font-style:normal;
font-weight:bold;
}
.comments .comments-content .user a {
color: #444;
}
.comments .comments-content .user a:hover {
text-decoration: none;
color: #555;
}
.comments .comments-content .icon.blog-author {
width: 18px;
height: 18px;
display: inline-block;
margin: 0 0 -4px 6px;
}
.comments .comments-content .datetime {
margin-left:6px;
color: #999;
font-style: italic;
font-size: 11px;
float: right;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment-content {
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 12.5px;
line-height: 19px;
}
.comments .comments-content .comment-content {
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 12.5px;
line-height: 19px;
text-align:none;
margin: 15px 0 15px;
}
.comments .comments-content .owner-actions {
position:absolute;
right:0;
top:0;
}
.comments .comments-replybox {
border: none;
height: 250px;
width: 100%;
}
.comments .comment-replybox-single {
margin-top: 5px;
margin-left: 48px;
}
.comments .comment-replybox-thread {
margin-top: 5px;
}
.comments .comments-content .loadmore a {
display: block;
padding: 10px 16px;
text-align: center;
}
.comments .thread-toggle {
cursor: pointer;
display: inline-block;
}
.comments .comments-content .loadmore {
cursor: pointer;
max-height: 3em;
margin-top: 3em;
}
.comments .comments-content .loadmore.loaded {
max-height: 0px;
opacity: 0;
overflow: hidden;
}
.comments .thread-chrome.thread-collapsed {
display: none;
}
.comments .thread-toggle {
display: inline-block;
}
.comments .thread-toggle .thread-arrow {
display: inline-block;
height: 6px;
width: 7px;
overflow: visible;
margin: 0.3em;
padding-right: 4px;
}
.comments .thread-expanded .thread-arrow {
background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAc AAAAHCAYAAADEUlfTAAAAG0lEQVR42mNgwAfKy8v/48I4FeA0AacVDFQBAP9wJkE/KhUMAAAAAElFTkSuQmCC") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
}
.comments .thread-collapsed .thread-arrow {
background: url("data:image/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAA AcAAAAHCAYAAADEUlfTAAAAJUlEQVR42mNgAILy8vL/DLgASBKnApgkVgXIkhgKiNKJ005s4gDLbCZBiSxfygAAAAB JRU5ErkJggg==") no-repeat scroll 0 0 transparent;
}
.comments .avatar-image-container {
float: left;
overflow: hidden;
}
.comments .avatar-image-container img {
width: 36px;
}
.comments .comment-block {
margin-left: 48px;
position: relative;
padding: 15px 20px 15px 20px;
background: #F7F7F7;
border: 1px solid #E4E4E4;
overflow: hidden;
border-radius: 4px;
-moz-border-radius: 4px;
-webkit-border-radius: 4px;
border-image: initial;
}
Now save the template and your are done!
Go to one of your page which have comment and see if it works. Enjoy using cool threaded comment system.
Please let me know if you got any problem.
