#comments { padding-bottom: 40px; }
#comments #divider {
  padding-right: 69px;
  margin-left: -50px;
  position: relative;
  margin-bottom: 32px;
  height: 7px;
  width: 100%;
  margin-top: 32px;
  background-image: url(../images/divider.png);
  background-repeat: repeat-x;
}
#comments h2.title {
  margin-bottom: 20px;
  font-size: 30px;
  font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
  text-transform: uppercase;
  font-weight: bold;
}
#comments h2.title.news { color: #ffb641; }
#comments h2.title.ae { color: #f89273; }
#comments h2.title.sports { color: #80e073; }
#comments h2.title.opinion { color: #3b68d2; }
#comments h2.title.backpage { color: #b99ed9; }
#comments h2.title.feature { color: #ede612; }
#comments h2.title .firstletter_accent { font-size: 43px; }
#comments .comment_rule {
  margin-left: 0;
  margin-bottom: 10px;
  margin-right: 25px;
  margin-top: 10px;
  border-left-width: 0;
  border-bottom-width: 0px;
  border-right-width: 0;
  border-top-width: 1px;
  color: white;
  border-left: 0 none;
  border-right: 0 none;
  border-style: solid none;
  text-align: left;
}

#comments .responses {
	right: 25px;
	margin-bottom: -30px;
	position: relative;
	text-align: right;
	color: #999999;
	font-size: 15px;
	font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	top: -60px;
}

#comments .response_number {
	font-size: 31px;
}

#comments .comment_rule.news { border-color: #ffb641; }
#comments .comment_rule.ae { border-color: #f89273; }
#comments .comment_rule.sports { border-color: #80e073; }
#comments .comment_rule.opinion { border-color: #3b68d2; }
#comments .comment_rule.backpage { border-color: #b99ed9; }
#comments .comment_rule.feature { border-color: #ede612; }
#comments #single {
  padding-bottom: 12px;
  padding-top: 12px;
}
#comments #comment_meta_data { margin-bottom: 8px; }
#comments .author {
  margin-right: 9px;
  font-size: 18px;
  font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
}
#comments .date {
  margin-right: 5px;
  color: #9b9b9b;
  font-size: 11px;
  font-weight: bold;
  font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
}
#comments .time {
  color: #999999;
  font-size: 11px;
  font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
}
#comments .commenttext {
  line-height: 148%;
  font-size: 13px;
  font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
}

.nocomments {
  color: #575757;
  font-size: 18px;
  font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
}
.nocomments .accent1 {
  text-transform: lowercase;
  color: #a8a8a8;
  font-size: 19px;
}
.nocomments .accent2 {
  color: #a8a8a8;
  font-size: 16px;
  text-transform: uppercase;
}

/*this is the entire form area*/
#comments #form_area {
  height: 100%;
  margin-bottom: 50px;
  margin-top: 30px;
  	text-align: right;
}
#form_area .info_text {
	text-align: right;
	font-size: 12px; 
	font-style: normal; 
	font-weight: normal; 
	font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
}

#form_area .info_text.light {
	color: #999999; 
}

#form_area .info_text.dark {
	color: #666666; 
}

#form_area #avatar {
	margin-bottom: 10px;
	text-align: right;
	margin-top: 30px;
}

#form_area #avatar img{
	margin: -2px;	
}

#form_area a{
	font-family: Georgia, "Times New Roman", Times, serif;
	font-size: 14px;
	font-style: italic;
}

#form_area a:hover{
	text-decoration: underline;
}

/* this is actual form*/
#commentform {
	min-width: 405px;
	padding: 15px;
	margin-bottom: 60px;
	margin-top: 11px;
	height: 100%;
	border-width: 0px;
	border-style: none;
	background-image: url(../images/comments/form_background.png);
}

#commentform input, #commentform select, #commentform textarea {
	padding: 5px;
	position: relative;
	display: inline;
	border-width: 0px;
	border-style: none;
} 

#commentform input, #commentform select {
	width: 185px;
}

#commentform textarea{
	height: 240px;
	display: inline;
	float: left;
	width: 290px;
	margin-top: 13px;
	
}

#commentform #author, #commentform #email, #commentform #comment_text {
	color: #666666;
	font-size: 15px;
	font-weight: bold;
	font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
	
}

#commentform #right_column {
	height: 250px;
	position: relative;
	float: right;
	display: inline;
	width: 88px;
	margin-top: 13px;
}

#commentform #right_column .checkbox{
	width: 10px;
}

#commentform .uppercase{
	text-transform: uppercase;
}

#commentform .lowercase{
	text-transform: none;
}

#commentform #submit_button {
	font-size: 12px;
	text-transform: uppercase;
	font-family: Helvetica, Verdana, Arial, sans-serif;
	color: white;
	bottom: 0px;
	left: 0px;
	position: absolute;
	width: 84px;
  	height: 52px;
  	margin: 0;
  	padding: 0;
  	border: 0;
  	/*background: transparent url(../images/comments/submit.png) no-repeat center top;*/
  	text-indent: -1000em;
  	cursor: pointer; /* hand-shaped cursor */
  	cursor: hand; /* for IE 5.x */
}

}