This is useful for flat (not threaded) lists of comments.
Note: The comments modules offers an option to disable or enable submission comment titles? However, if that option is set to "Disabled", titles are automatically extracted from new comments and next still displayed. :-(

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arhak’s picture

arhak commented
Version: 6.x-1.5 » 6.x-2.0-beta1
Status: Active » Fixed

but if you use the 6.x-2.x branch of this module you have the chance to get rid of subjects
- edit your content type
- change the "Default subject pattern" to be empty/blank (it is located under Comment settings fieldset)
- disable the "Comment subject field"

and you're done

physiotek’s picture

physiotek commented

using this strategy within 6.x.2 is ok to hide the comment title but the problem is that the title is not just hidden but nonexistant.
this cause problems using a block showing titles. the ideal would be to still have the re: title but with the option to hide it in the node template. yes i could edit the template but actually i have a need to hide it from a core template in a multisite drupal install. so editing the core template is not an option for me... any ideas? thanks,
pht3k

arhak’s picture

arhak commented

modify your theme's style.css

this will work for Garland (might not work for another themes, e.g: Atrium, because it depends on the markup used in the template)

#comments .comment .clear-block > h3 {
  display: none;
}
not_Dries_Buytaert’s picture

not_Dries_Buytaert commented
Title: Add option per content type to not show comment title » Add option per content type to: 1) remove input-option and 2) not output comment titles

Hiding elements using CSS is always possible, though it:
a) causes unnecessary overhead and
b) is less secure (however small the consequences of this maybe in certain use-cases).

Agree that the solution should also work for multisites (without the need to alter files, like css-files).

So, we need following (additional) optional values for the "Default subject pattern"-field:
1) "do NOT allow inputing titles and do NOT output titles"
3) "do NOT allow inputing titles, DO output"
2) "DO allow inputing titles and do NOT output titles"
4) "DO allow inputing titles, DO output"

arhak’s picture

arhak commented
Status: Fixed » Active

@#4 it seems too much..
how to display such controls without overwhelm?

note that the 90+% of the cases won't need that complexity,
majority shouldn't be affected due to minorities' needs

I'll have to consider some elegant alternative,
like some not-so-obvious advanced controls, to avoid confusing average users

arhak’s picture

arhak commented
Status: Active » Fixed

2) DO allow inputing titles and do NOT output titles

BTW, what do you have in mind for this?
it has to be hid via CSS, but themes are different (for instance Open Atrium themes)
so @#3 will work for Garland and others, but can't ensure it would work with every theme

then
1) is answered @#1
2) CSS in your theme (not in this module)
3) similar to #1 but don't let the pattern empty
4) usual case with subject enabled

so? anything else?

Status: Fixed » Closed (fixed)

Automatically closed -- issue fixed for 2 weeks with no activity.