Trouble with comment template

  • Hi everyone,

    I’m using the Blue Zinfandel 3-column theme on my blog. When I turn off comments on a post that already has comments, it throws the right-hand sidebar to the bottom of the screen. You can see an example here. This does not happen if comments are turned off on a post where no comments were left, and an example of that is here.

    The problem seems to be that when the comments are turned off on a post with no comments, the comment box remains but takes away the other fields and the “submit” button. When the comments are turned of on a post with comments, the comment box disappears entirely. I am confident that I’ve ruled out other possible problems — unclosed HTML tags, images, long URLs pasted in, etc. I’m almost positive that this is a template issue, but I’m not advanced enough to understand that php code and don’t know where to go from here.

    If anyone out there can help with this, I’d very greatly appreciate it. If you don’t think the problem is the template, do you know what it is? If it is the template, do you know what code I need to insert or delete to correct it? Thanks.

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  • I am confident that I’ve ruled out other possible problems — unclosed HTML tags, images, long URLs pasted in, etc

    uh..

    https://validator.w3.org/check?uri=http%3A%2F%2Fthecurvature.com%2F2007%2F10%2F29%2Fyou-really-got-me%2F%23comment-2793&charset=%28detect+automatically%29&doctype=Inline&group=0

    start by fixing the errors. Those are all introduced by you, btw Brian codes meticulous themes.

    Thread Starter thecurvature

    (@thecurvature)

    Okay. Well, at this point I’ve managed to get it down from 163 errors to 88. They were all very minor changes, usually replacing HTML with XHML. Absolutely nothing in appearance has changed anywhere. Also, none of the errors that come up reference comments. So, if someone sees an error that might be causing the problem, it’d be good to know what it is. If not, are there other suggestions?

    I gave you the solution .. you just didnt work through ALL the errors.

    Line 1673, Column 6: end tag for “div” omitted, but OMITTAG NO was specified.

    Now, fix the errors.

    Simply because you fix 1/2 of what is there and dont see a change doesnt mean that the other 1/2 isnt where your problem lies.

    Some of us have been doing this much longer than you might think. ??

    Thread Starter thecurvature

    (@thecurvature)

    I didn’t say that you were wrong, honeycomb. I’d love to fix the errors, but I don’t know how. I fixed what I could figure out. Many things say that a tag is “omitted” but I see the tag sitting there. Precisely why I’m on this forum asking the question is because I presumed that you know more than me. As I said in my original post, my coding skills are rather limited. In fact, a good chunk of the mistakes left were codes that were copied and pasted into the template (like my ad code). If I was advanced enough to understand what half of the errors left even mean, I imagine that I would have been able to find the problem I’m looking to fix on my own.

    you may see A closing </div> tag.. that does not mean another one isnt necessary.

    Let the validator do the work — trust what it says.

    In short, you have removed a necessary </div> tag

    If you need to, re-download the theme, LOOK at files, compare yours to the original ones.

    Furthermore, I didnt say that you said that I was wrong. However, you certainly sounded hesitant to go through the rest of the errors without being told EXACTLY which one is causing your problem.

    Thats the wrong outlook, especially in the long run, as not all issues will boil down to one lost or misplaced tag. Some things arent quite that simple.

    Not to mention that valid sites are much easier to troubleshoot when something does go wrong.

    Thread Starter thecurvature

    (@thecurvature)

    Well right now I’m at a point where there are 49 errors. A big chunk are from my blog ads, from which it wants me to delete a lot but I’m wary of doing so. The rest I either do not know how to find or I don’t know how to fix with the information they give me. For example, it has a problem with the </body> and </html> tags at the bottom of the footer but doesn’t say how to fix them and though I took a couple of guesses, they didn’t work. I also have no idea what this thing is: Warning Line 398, Column 161: reference not terminated by REFC delimiter and have no clue how to even access the blogroll html to fix the errors it says are there.

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