How to Remove That html Code from Under Your Comment Box

byMartJL

205 followers

11 years ago

How do you remove the html code from under your comment box on your pages and posts?

I saw this code underneath the comment boxes on my website:

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href=”” title=””> <abbr title=””> <acronym title=””> <b> <blockquote cite=””> <cite> <code> <del datetime=””> <em> <i> <q cite=””> <strike> <strong>

So how do you remove it?

First you have to go into the Dashboard then into Appearance then Editor.

When you are in Editor for edit theme, go to Styles then open styles.css.
I found the line which looks like this:

#content #commentform .form-allowed-tags {
color: #707070;
font-size: 12px;

underneath add the following text: display:none;

so that it looks like this:

#content #commentform .form-allowed-tags {
color: #707070;
font-size: 12px;
display:none;

Then click the "update file" button and when you view the page, the code should be gone.

It took me a few minutes of web research to figure this out, and a few minutes to find the correct line of code to edit.
Different themes probably have this code on a different line number.
It may help to copy and paste the code into an html editor to help find the line you need to edit, but I don't think that's necessary.
Just take a little time to look through the code to find where you need to edit.