help! no matter what’d done, can’t change comment font size!

.commentlist p {
font-size: 24px;
}

Does that change it ?

should i just place it anywhere in the layout.css?

nope no change. =(

#commentform p {
font-size: 20px;
}

That does ??

still nothing! =( here is the code i have for my layout.css

/* Default WordPress by Dave Shea || https://mezzoblue.com
Modifications by Matthew Mullenweg || https://photomatt.net
This is just a basic layout, with only the bare minimum defined.
Please tweak this and make it your own. ??
*/

a {
color: #675;
}

a img {
border: none;
}

a:visited {
color: #342;
}

a:hover {
color: #9a8;
}

acronym, abbr {
border-bottom: 1px dashed #333;
}

acronym, abbr, span.caps {
cursor: help;
font-size: 90%;
letter-spacing: .07em;
}

blockquote {
border-left: 5px solid #ccc;
margin-left: 1.5em;
padding-left: 5px;
}

body {
background: #fff;
border: solid 2px #565;
border-bottom: solid 1px #565;
border-top: solid 3px #565;
color: #000;
font-family: ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana, sans-serif;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

cite {
font-size: 90%;
font-style: normal;
}

h2 {
border-bottom: 1px dotted #ccc;
font: 95% “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
letter-spacing: 0.2em;
margin: 15px 0 2px 0;
padding-bottom: 2px;
}

h3 {
border-bottom: dotted 1px #eee;
font-family: “Times New Roman”, Times, serif;
margin-top: 0;
}
ol#commentlist p {
font-family: Tahoma;

}

p, li, .feedback {
font: 90%/175% ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana, sans-serif;
letter-spacing: -1px;
}

#commentform p {
font-size: 20px;
}

/* classes used by the_meta() */
ul.post-meta {
list-style: none;
}

ul.post-meta span.post-meta-key {
font-weight: bold;
}

.credit {
background: #90a090;
border-top: double 3px #aba;
color: #fff;
font-size: 11px;
margin: 10px 0 0 0;
padding: 3px;
text-align: center;
}

.credit a:link, .credit a:hover {
color: #fff;
}

.feedback {
color: #ccc;
text-align: right;
clear: all;
}

.meta {
font-size: .75em;
}

.meta li, ul.post-meta li {
display: inline;
}

.meta ul {
display: inline;
list-style: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
}

.meta, .meta a {
color: #808080;
font-weight: normal;
letter-spacing: 0;
}

.storytitle {
margin: 0;
}

.storytitle a {
text-decoration: none;
}

#commentform #name, #commentform #email, #commentform #url, #commentform textarea {
background: #fff;
border: 1px solid #333;
padding: .2em;
}

#commentform textarea {
width: 100%;
}

#commentlist li ul {
border-left: 1px solid #ddd;
font-size: 200PX;
list-style-type: none;
}

#content {
margin: 30px 13em 0 3em;
padding-right: 60px;
}

#header {
background: #90a090;
border-bottom: double 3px #aba;
border-left: solid 1px #9a9;
border-right: solid 1px #565;
border-top: solid 1px #9a9;
font: italic normal 230% ‘Times New Roman’, Times, serif;
letter-spacing: 0.2em;
margin: 0;
padding: 15px 10px 15px 60px;
}

#header a {
color: #fff;
text-decoration: none;
}

#header a:hover {
text-decoration: underline;
}

#menu {
background: #fff;
border-left: 1px dotted #ccc;
border-top: solid 3px #e0e6e0;
padding: 20px 0 10px 30px;
position: absolute;
right: 2px;
top: 0;
width: 11em;
}

#menu form {
margin: 0 0 0 13px;
}

#menu input#s {
width: 80%;
background: #eee;
border: 1px solid #999;
color: #000;
}

#menu ul {
color: #ccc;
font-weight: bold;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding-left: 3px;
text-transform: lowercase;
}

#menu ul li {
font: italic normal 110% ‘Times New Roman’, Times, serif;
letter-spacing: 0.1em;
margin-top: 10px;
padding-bottom: 2px; /*border-bottom: dotted 1px #ccc;*/
}

#menu ul ul {
font-variant: normal;
font-weight: normal;
line-height: 100%;
list-style-type: none;
margin: 0;
padding: 0;
text-align: left;
}

#menu ul ul li {
border: 0;
font: normal normal 70%/115% ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana, sans-serif;
letter-spacing: 0;
margin-top: 0;
padding: 0;
padding-left: 12px;
}

#menu ul ul li a {
color: #000;
text-decoration: none;
}

#menu ul ul li a:hover {
border-bottom: 1px solid #809080;
}

#menu ul ul ul.children {
font-size: 142%;
padding-left: 4px;
}

#wp-calendar {
border: 1px solid #ddd;
empty-cells: show;
font-size: 14px;
margin: 0;
width: 90%;
}

#wp-calendar #next a {
padding-right: 10px;
text-align: right;
}

#wp-calendar #prev a {
padding-left: 10px;
text-align: left;
}

#wp-calendar a {
display: block;
text-decoration: none;
}

#wp-calendar a:hover {
background: #e0e6e0;
color: #333;
}

#wp-calendar caption {
color: #999;
font-size: 16px;
text-align: left;
}

#wp-calendar td {
color: #ccc;
font: normal 12px ‘Lucida Grande’, ‘Lucida Sans Unicode’, Verdana, sans-serif;
letter-spacing: normal;
padding: 2px 0;
text-align: center;
}

#wp-calendar td.pad:hover {
background: #fff;
}

#wp-calendar td:hover, #wp-calendar #today {
background: #eee;
color: #bbb;
}

#wp-calendar th {
font-style: normal;
text-transform: capitalize;
}

What I posted does work – I tried it in the Firefox webdev bar.

You did paste it at the bottom of your css ?

hmm lemme check

Confirmed, also using FireFox v1.0 and Web Developer Extension v0.9.2. Podz’ solution will work.

man i don’t understand what the deal is. I changed the wp-layout.css code as instructed, and nothing has changed! can you pull up my webpage and confirm if changes were made?
https://www.marvinmoul.com

This also change the main text area:
}
#commentform textarea {
background-color: #fff;
border: 1px solid #696;
font-family: verdana, arial, helvetica, geneva, sans-serif;
font-size: 3em;

You do not seem to be altering the corect css.

i just noticed i have two wp-layout.css files…one in my main root folder and one in a folder labeled “wpadmin.” is this wrong? If so, which should i delete?

Delete neither

wp-admin.css is in wp-admin/

wp-layout.css is in root

It’s the second one you need to alter.

sorry, i must have miscommunicated. there is actually a wp-layout.css in my wp-admin folder. would having two of these in different places screw things up?

I have checked and I am altering the root folder layout.css…i’m so frustrated because i don’t know if i just can’t “see” the changes on my computer…

First – you should have a wp-layout.css in the same folder as the following files:
wp-comments.php
wp-login.php

Any other ‘wp-layout.css’ file is an error.

Second – seeing changes.
Get the page in our browser, then press CTRL and F5 together to force a reresh. Do that after each change to check.

hey hey i figured it out! Since i’m using the style-switcher extension, i have to change the style.css sheet in the specific style folder i’m using. in this case, i had to go under my wp-style folder, and the into my “golf” folder and change the style.css file there instead of the root folder style.css.

sheesh! Thanks for your help guys!