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SCSS WordPress Comment Styles. Based on the WordPress threaded comments CSS over at css-tricks.com, I created this nested SCSS. It's basic, simple, and clean. Quickly copy, paste, and style away! Original CSS located at: http://css-tricks.com/snippets/wordpress/base-threaded-comments-styling/
/* =========================================================
Comments
========================================================= */
ol.commentlist {
list-style:none;
margin:0 0 1em;
padding:0;
text-indent:0;
li {}
li.alt {}
li.bypostauthor {}
li.byuser {}
li.comment-author-admin {}
li.comment {
border-bottom: 1px solid #ddd;
padding:1em;
.comment-author {} // end .comment-author
div.vcard {
font-weight: 14px;
cite.fn {
a.url {}
} // end cite.fn
img.avatar {
border:5px solid #ccc;
float:right;
margin:0 0 20px 20px;
} // end .avatar
img.avatar-32 {} // end .avatar-32
img.photo {} // end .photo
span.says {} // ebd .says
} // end .vcard
div.commentmetadata {} // end .commentmetadata
div.comment-meta {
font-size: 11px;
a {
color: #ccc;
} // end a
} // end div.comment-meta
p {font-size: 12px;} // end p
ul {
font-size: 12px;
list-style: none;
margin: 0 0 0 20px;
} // end ul
div.reply {
font-size: 11px;
a {font-weight: bold;} // end a
} // end reply
ul.children {
list-style:none;
margin: 12px;
text-indent:0;
li {} // end li
li.alt {}
li.bypostauthor {}
li.byuser {}
li.comment {}
li.comment-author-admin {}
li.depth-2 { border-left: 5px solid #ccc; margin:0 0 10px 10px; }
li.depth-3 { border-left: 5px solid #bbb; margin:0 0 10px 10px; }
li.depth-4 { border-left: 5px solid #aaa; margin:0 0 10px 10px; }
li.depth-5 {} // you get the idea
li.odd {} // end .odd
} // end ul.children
} // end li.comment
li.even {background:#fff;}
li.odd {background:#f6f6f6;}
li.parent {border-left:5px solid #ddd;}
li.thread-alt {}
li.thread-even {}
li.thread-odd {}
} // end commentlist
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hanneslsm commented Mar 24, 2020

Thanks for the code!
line 28 seems wrong to me font-weight: 14px;. You mean font-size, right?

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