[Chadi]

Thanks for your reply. I'd rather not modify the style's layout and everything looks fine except the comments area in this hack. I love the hack and wish to resolve this with your good support

This is the the portion of the unmodified shownews template

<if condition="$vboptions['allowthreadedmode']">
			<td class="vbmenu_control" id="displaymodes" nowrap="nowrap">
				<a href="$show[nojs_link]#goto_displaymodes">$vbphrase[display_modes]</a>
				<if condition="$show['popups']">
					<script type="text/javascript"> vbmenu_register("displaymodes"); </script>
				</if>
			</td>
		</if>
	</tr>
</table>
<!-- / toolbar -->

<!-- end content table -->
$spacer_close
<!-- / end content table -->

<if condition="$show['reputation']">
	<script type="text/javascript" src="clientscript/vbulletin_ajax_reputation.js?v=$vboptions[simpleversion]"></script>
</if>

$firstbit

$similararticles

<div id="posts"><if condition="$postbits == ''">$news_comments<else />$postbits</if><br />

<div id="lastpost"></div></div>

<!-- start content table -->
$spacer_open
<!-- / start content table -->

<!-- controls below postbits -->
<table cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" border="0" width="100%">
	<tr valign="top">
		<if condition="$show['largereplybutton']">
			<td class="smallfont"><a href="newreply.php?$session[sessionurl]do=newreply&amp;noquote=1&amp;p=$LASTPOSTID" rel="nofollow"><if condition="$show['closethread']"><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/reply.gif" alt="$vbphrase[reply]" border="0" /><else /><img src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/threadclosed.gif" alt="$vbphrase[closed_article]" border="0" /></if></a></td>
		<else />