Comment form content textarea shouldn't be a required field

[bckelley]

there's a note on the top of the comment form that states: " Required fields are marked " and the comment <textarea> is marked required but not marked with an "*"

[mukesh27]

@bckelley, Good catch. It's core software bug for comment form.

Default comment form textarea(comment) field is not required field to submit any comments so we needs to remove that attribute from comment textarea field to fix this issue.

Also added 2nd-opinion for core developer feedback.

[mukesh27]

Patch that remove required attribute from comment textarea

[mindctrl]

Screenshot showing the asterisk next to the comment textarea

[mindctrl]

Hi all,

It seems this was fixed, or was perhaps an issue with a specific theme? I've checked a few themes and see the asterisk is there for the comment textarea. Since this doesn't seem to be a bug currently and it's been years since any activity, I'm going to close this ticket to help clean up Trac. Feel free to reopen if you think there's a bug in WordPress that should be fixed.

[peterwilsoncc]

This was resolved in r52029 for #16206.

I'll modify the closed status of this ticket to be a duplicate of the earlier issue.