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Understanding the Comment Text Option Group in Divi 5

Learn how to customize Comment Text in Divi 5 with design options for fonts, colors, spacing, and alignment to enhance your site.

The Comment Text options in Divi allow you to customize the styling of the Comments module's comment text within your design. These settings give you control over the appearance of comment text and ensure they align with your design goals.

Divi 5 - Comment Text Design options

Where to Find the Heading Text Options

  1. Open the Module Settings: Click the gear icon or the module itself to access the settings.

  2. Navigate to the Design Tab: Locate the Comment Text option group.

Heading Text Customization Settings

  1. Comment Font: Choose a font from the dropdown or upload a custom font for unique styling.

  2. Comment Font Weight: Adjust the boldness of your Comment with options like light, bold, or extra-bold.

  3. Variable Font Options: those options will only be available if you are using a Google variable font such as Robo, Google Sans Flex, or Bitcount):

    • Variable Font Weight: Use the slider or type in a numeric value for the font weight.

    • Optical Sizing: Enable automatic optical size handling.

    • Variable Font Width: Fine-tune variable font width using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Slant: Fine-tune variable font slant using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Crsv: Fine-tune variable font crsv using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Element Shape: Fine-tune variable font element shape using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Element Expansion: Fine-tune variable font element expansion using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Rond: Fine-tune variable font rond using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Grade: Fine-tune variable font grade using variable font interpolation.

    • Variable Font Width: Fine-tune variable font width using variable font interpolation.

  4. Comment Text Size: You can adjust the font size of your Comment text using the slider or by entering a specific value. It also accepts Global Variables.

  5. Comment Text Color: Choose a color to be used for the Comment text. It also accepts Global Variables.

  6. Comment Line Height: Set the space between the lines of the Comment text, helping to improve readability. It also accepts Global Variables.

  7. Comment Letter Spacing: Control the space between letters by adjusting the slider or entering a value. It also accepts Global Variables.

  8. Comment Text Alignment: Set the alignment for the Comment text—left, center, right, or justified.

  9. Comment Capitalization: Choose the Comment text's capitalization:

    1. Uppercase - All letters are in uppercase format

    2. Capitalize - Makes the first letter of each word uppercase.

    3. Lowercase - All letters are in lowercase format.

    4. Smallcaps - Lowercase letters display as smaller uppercase letters.

    5. All Small Caps - all letters display as small caps, including letters that were already uppercase.

  10. Comment Font Style: Select additional font styles, including:

    • Italic: Makes the text lean to the right.

    • Underline: Adds a line under the text.

    • Overline: adds a line above the text.

    • Strikethrough: draws a line through the middle of the text.
      ⚠️ Note: When Underline, Overline, and/or Strikethrough are enabled, you can also choose:

      • Line Color: Choose the line's color. It also accepts Global Variables.

      • Line Thickness: Choose how thick or slim the line is.

      • Line Type: Choose the Line's type:

        • Solid

        • Double

        • Dotted

        • Dashed

        • Wavy

  11. Comment Line Warp Style: Choose how text should wrap. Default keeps native browser wrapping, Balanced evens heading lines, and Pretty helps avoid single-word endings.

    • Default: Text can move onto a new line when it runs out of space.

    • Balanced: Short text breaks into lines with more even lengths

    • Pretty: Text wrap in a cleaner, more visually pleasing way

  12. Comment Text Direction: Choose text flow direction. Standard Horizontal reads left-to-right across lines, while vertical modes stack glyphs top-to-bottom.

    1. Standard Horizontal

    2. Vertical (right to left): The text is displayed from top to bottom, and each new line starts to the left of the previous one.

    3. Vertical (left to right): The text is displayed from bottom to top, and each new line starts to the left of the previous one.

  13. Comment Hyphenation: When enabled, if a word is too long to fit nicely on one line, the browser can break it into parts and add a hyphen at the break.

  14. Comment Fill Type: Choose the Comment's text fill options:

    • None - No Comment text fill.

    • Gradient - Fill the Comment text with a Gradient

    • Image - Fill the Comment text with an Image

    • Transparent - Fill the Comment text with a transparent fill.

  15. Comment Stroke Width - Choose the thickness of the stroke.

    • Comment Stroke Color - Choose the Comment text's stroke color.

  16. Comment Columns: Set how many columns the text should flow through.

  17. Comment Text Shadow: Add a text shadow effect and customize its direction, blur, and color to add depth or emphasis to the Comment:

    • Direction: Adjust horizontal and vertical placement.

    • Blur: Control how soft or sharp the shadow appears.

    • Color: Set a shadow color to complement the text.

Tips for Using Heading Text Options

  • Use Hierarchy Effectively: Assign heading levels (h1-h6) consistently to establish a clear content hierarchy.

  • Match Design Aesthetics: Select fonts, colors, and styles that align with your site’s overall branding.

  • Optimize Readability: Adjust size, spacing, and line height to make headings easy to read.

  • Add Subtle Effects: Use text shadows sparingly to enhance contrast without overpowering the design.

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