diff --git a/comments.py b/comments.py
index 0378fab..23367ab 100755
--- a/comments.py
+++ b/comments.py
@@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ html=htmlgen.HTMLgen(pagelayout.getLayoutXML().decode('utf-8'),"Comments")
 html.appendHTML("<form action=\"comments.py?aid=%i\" method=\"POST\""%aid)
 html.appendHTML("<input type=\"hidden\" name=\"seed\" value=\"%i\" />"%seed)
 html.appendHTML("<input placeholder=\"Username\" name=\"username\" /><br />")
-html.appendHTML("<textarea name=\"message\" placeholder=\"Compose your message. Markdown is enabled.\" /><br />")
+html.appendHTML("<textarea name=\"message\" placeholder=\"Compose your message. Markdown is enabled.\" ></textarea><br />")
 html.appendHTML("<img src=\"data:image/png;base64,%s alt=\"Captcha image\" />" % base64.b64encode(capt.getvalue()))
 html.appendHTML("<input placeholder=\"Captcha. lowercase only. case sensitive\" name=\"checkstr\" />")
 html.appendHTML("<input type=\"submit\" /></form>")