[bigcurt]

Originally Posted by Audentio

Works on 3.8.x.

However, I didnt like the height. Despite editing it in the acp, I added a dropdown fuction so staff who don't care to make comments or at least not at that time (in other words, they can call on it), I made this modification:

THREADCOMMENT:

<table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="80%" align="center">
<tbody>
    <tr>
        <td class="thead" colspan="5">
            <a style="float:$stylevar[right]" href="#top" onclick="return toggle_collapse('threadcomment')"><img id="collapseimg_threadcomment" src="$stylevar[imgdir_button]/collapse_thead$vbcollapse[collapseimg_threadcomment].gif" alt="" border="0" /></a>
            Staff Comments
        </td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
<tbody id="collapseobj_threadcomment" style="$vbcollapse[collapseobj_threadcomment]">
<tr>
        <td>
            <if condition="$threadinfo[threadcomments] > 0">
                <if condition="$show['morethreadcomments']">
                    <div align="center"><a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$threadinfo[threadid]&amp;showall=1">[$vbphrase[threadcomments_more]]</a></div>
                </if>
                <table class="tborder" cellpadding="$stylevar[cellpadding]" cellspacing="$stylevar[cellspacing]" border="0" width="100%">
                    $commentbits
                </table>
            </if>
            <if condition="THIS_SCRIPT != 'postings'">
            <div align="center" style="margin-top: 10px;">
            <form name="threadcomment" action="showthread.php" method="post">
            <input type="hidden" name="s" value="$session[sessionhash]" />
            <input type="hidden" name="t" value="$threadinfo[threadid]" />
            <input type="hidden" name="addcomment" value="1" />
                        <input type="hidden" name="securitytoken" value="$bbuserinfo[securitytoken]" />
            <input type="hidden" name="page" value="$page" />
            <input name="threadcomment" size="80" class="bginput"></textarea><button type="submit" class="button">$vbphrase[add]</button>
            </form>
            </div>
            <else />
            <br />
            </if>
        </td>
    </tr>
</tbody>
</table>

threadcommentbit:

<tr>
<if condition="$vbulletin->options['threadcomments_time']">
    <td class="alt1">$comment[username]</td>
    <td class="alt2" width="15%">$comment[date]</td>
<else />
    <td class="alt2">$comment[username]</td>
</if>
    <td class="alt1" width="100%" <if condition="!$show['threadcommentdelete']">colspan="2"</if>>$comment[comment]</td>
    <if condition="$show['threadcommentdelete']">
        <td class="alt2"><a href="showthread.php?$session[sessionurl]t=$threadinfo[threadid]&deletecomment=1&commentid=$comment[threadcommentid]">X</td>
    </if>
</tr>

threadcomment bit just took away the valign="top" as thats not necessary, it looks better centered, but if you use this I dont expect you to need to update that if you don't want to.

Toggling the menu hides the whole hack until you want to use it.

That is kick ass! Thanks so much.