Wordpress - disabling comments breaks page layout??

[etherealfocus]

I'd prefer to keep the site I'm working on anonymous since it's work-related, but I've noticed that on many of the new pages I create, I have to keep comments enabled or the layout breaks. Our site was done by a developer we no longer work with (they gouged heavily before I got involved and put a stop to it) so I'm pretty much on my own to figure out what they left us.

Any idea how disabling comments could break a layout and how to fix it?

 

[Markbnj]

How? Probably as simple as disabling comments removes an element from the page, and the design doesn't accommodate the change. Is it one of the stock themes? Or something completely custom?

 

[etherealfocus]

It's custom, but based roughly on Twenty Ten. The weird thing is that it's only affecting the page I'm working on now. Our About page has nothing but a table, comments are disabled, and it works fine. The page I'm working on now is identical except with a different table. I've checked and rechecked my code - thought I was just missing something stupid like a </div> but I'm not seeing anything.

 

[Ken g6]

Define "breaks". Have you checked the CSS to see if anything before or after comments requires comments? E.g. ".comments + X"?

Worst case you could probably hide comments with CSS. :\