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1. Comment-author
2. Comment-body
3. Comment-footer

Our tutorial today is on how to style the Comment-Body section of Author. So lets get to work!

Highlight and Customize Comments in Blogger

1. Go To Blogger > Design > Edit HTML
2. Backup your template
3. Check "Expand widget templates" Box
4. Search for this.

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     5.   Just above it paste the CSS code below,

.mbt-comment-body {
background: #FFFFFF;
color: #008000;
border: 1px solid #008000;
margin:0;
padding:0 0 0 10px;
width:520px;
}

Make these changes:

• To Change the background color of author comments change #FFFFFF
• To change font color change #008000
• To change border size change 1px, to change border style change to solid, dashed or dotted  and to change the color of the border change #008000
• To change the width of the comment body change 520px

Tip: Use our color generator for making these changes
   6.    Next search carefully for this code in your template,
Tip: Press Crtl +F and search for one line at a time

      <data:commentPostedByMsg/>
          </dt>

          <dd class='comment-body'>
            <b:if cond='data:comment.isDeleted'>
              <span class='deleted-comment'><data:comment.body/></span>
            <b:else/>
              <p><data:comment.body/></p>
            </b:if>
          </dd>

     7.     Replace it with the following code,

      <data:commentPostedByMsg/>
          </dt>
<b:if cond='data:comment.author == data:post.author'>
<dd class='mbt-comment-body'>
<p><data:comment.body/></p>
</dd>
<b:else/>
          <dd class='comment-body'>
            <b:if cond='data:comment.isDeleted'>
              <span class='deleted-comment'><data:comment.body/></span>
            <b:else/>
              <p><data:comment.body/></p>
            </b:if>
          </dd>
</b:if>

     8.    Save your template and you are done!
Visit your blogs and see that the author comments now look something like this,

Let me know if you faced any problem. Would be a pleasure helping you. In my next post I will share several ways of customizing author comments. Have Fun! :)