# Direct link to composing a comment?

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/direct-link-to-composing-a-comment/279785
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [September 22, 2023, 12:37pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/direct-link-to-composing-a-comment/279785 "2023-09-22T12:37:15Z")
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### Author: ![renato](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/renato/32/383632_2.png) [@renato](https://meta.discourse.org/u/renato)
#### Post date: [September 24, 2023, 3:24pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/direct-link-to-composing-a-comment/279785/8 "2023-09-24T15:24:25Z")

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I still use a theme component for this:

> [@Opening a reply window via URL](https://meta.discourse.org/t/opening-a-reply-window-via-url/44781/18):
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> I use a simple theme component for this in my instance. Below is an adaptation from mine – which also accepts #upload (a new reply opening the upload window on desktop) and #edit (for wiki OPs) in addition to #reply. It needs some work, like avoiding setTimeout and correctly managing draftSequence (I don’t think topic.draft\_sequence is right), and I don’t know what would be the best practice here. That said, it’s working fine for me. Navigating to any topic like /t/[slug]/[id]#reply will open …

It could use an update, but still works.

My use case is that I use one topic per board game to track user ratings, and submitting a review is a reply to the topic.

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