Comments form

Contents

• Syntax
• Attributes
  • Common presentational attributes
• Examples
  • Example 1: Give visitors indication of ‘Comments’ status
  • Example 2: Display conditional comments and form
• Genealogy
  • Version 4.6.0
  • Version 4.5.0
  • Version 4.0.4

Syntax

<txp:comments_form />

The comments_form tag can be used as a single tag or a container tag and is used to display a comment form. Comments will be attached to present individual article as a default, or to the article set by the id attribute.

Attributes

Tag will accept the following attributes (case-sensitive) as well as the global attributes :

form="form name"

Use specified form template.

Default: comment_form.

Common presentational attributes

These attributes, which affect presentation, are shared by many tags. Note that default values can vary among tags.

class="CSS class name"

HTML class to apply to the wraptag attribute value.

Default: comments_form (see class cross-reference).

wraptag="tag"

HTML tag to wrap around output, specified without brackets (e.g. wraptag="p").

Default: unset (but see wraptag cross-reference for exceptions).

Examples

Example 1: Give visitors indication of ‘Comments’ status

Comments for articles can be turned on or off at the author’s discretion for any article that is published; by using the following scheme in an article form, you can still have the on/off control over comments while still giving users indication of comment status:

<txp:if_comments_allowed>
    <txp:comments_form />
<txp:else />
    <p>Comments are turned off for this article.</p>
</txp:if_comments_allowed>

Other tags used: if_comments_allowed, else.

Example 2: Display conditional comments and form

<txp:if_comments_allowed>
    <txp:comments form="lineitem" break="li" wraptag="ul" />
    <txp:comments_form />
</txp:if_comments_allowed>

And then an example of what the form lineitem could contain:

<txp:comment_id />

For the current article, returns a list of id numbers for comments and a comment input form (but only if comments are currently allowed).

Other tags used: comment_id, comments, if_comments_allowed.

Genealogy

Version 4.6.0

Can be used as a container tag.
msgstyle attribute deprecated.
forgetlabel, isize, msgcols, msgrows, msgstyle, previewlabel, rememberlabel and submitlabel attributes deprecated and functionality moved to individual comment_* input tags.

Version 4.5.0

Added forgetlabel, previewlabel, rememberlabel and submitlabel attributes.

Version 4.0.4

show_preview attribute removed.