Styling comments on twentyten child theme

The code for the comments is in the parent theme (in this case Twenty Ten). Copy the file that it is in (usually comments.php or single.php & page.php) into your child theme and make the edits there.

Hi Andrew,
I understand where I have to change it, but don’t understand how.
Here is what I have in my functions.php so far.
https://pastebin.com/uK75MGaL

That code has nothing to do with your comments. Re-read what andrew_cpht suggested.

@happyworker like I said, you’ll need to copy the comments.php (or single.php/page.php) from twenty ten to your child theme and make the changes there.

Thanks for your responses, but maybe I’m just not being clear.

In the comments.php it states the following:

/**
* The template for displaying Comments.
*
* The area of the page that contains both current comments
* and the comment form. The actual display of comments is
* handled by a callback to twentyten_comment which is
* located in the functions.php file.
*
* @package WordPress
* @subpackage Twenty_Ten
* @since Twenty Ten 1.0
*/

I want to deal with the actual display, so I included the code [in previous comment] to handle the display of the comment number.

In the page.php it only has the following:

<?php comments_template( '', true ); ?>

which is after the post. This is fine, I don’t want to change this.

In the single.php it calls the following:

<div class="entry-meta">
<?php twentyten_posted_on(); ?>
</div><!-- .entry-meta -->

Which is fine, that’s calling the code I have in the functions.php
The above code is also in my loop.php which means that it will show up on all posts anywhere – this is also fine.

My child theme includes the following files:
style.css
functions.php
loop.php
single.php
sidebar.php
header.php

Now what I’m trying to do is fix the functions.php code to do the following, since the twentyten_posted_on (); is in the loop and will change it everywhere.

Now I’m figuring that this part of the code I’m going to have to change.

sprintf( '<span class="meta-comment-count"><a class="url fn n" href="%1$s" title="%2$s">%3$s</a></span>',
                        '#comments', // use #comments to jump to top of comments; use #respond to jump to comment form
                        'jump to comments', // link alt text
                        (get_comments_number() != 1) ? get_comments_number().' comments' : get_comments_number().' comment'  // comments number

But I’m just not that good to figure it out.

I’ve done this before on a different theme and here is what the code looks like.

<?php $comment_count = get_comment_count($post->ID); ?>
<?php if ($comment_count['approved'] > 0) : ?> | <?php comments_popup_link('','<span style="font-size:1.5em;font-weight:bold;">1</span> comment','<span style="font-size:1.5em;font-weight:bold;">%</span> comments','',''); ?> , <a style="color:#0099cc;" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>#commentform">what's your opinion?</a>
<?php else : ?> | <a style="color:#0099cc" href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>#commentform"> Care to comment?</a><?php endif; ?>

Thanks again for the responses.