The <!-- … -->Tag (XHTML Reference)

Introduction

In XHTML you have the possibility to use comments. The web browser ignores comments. That means that the comments aren’t shown to the user if the page is shown in any Internet browser. Comments are very important if you write code, even if it is a simple HTML page. Sometimes comments can save you many hours. For example you can write down the author of the code or the creation date of the file.

Examples

A comment looks like this:

<!-- … -->

Everything between those tags is not displayed to the end user. The above example only comments one line. To comment multiple lines you can do the following:

<!-- Your comment can be here
       and here and
       as well as here -->

Here is a more practical example:

<!-- Author: Sonu Kapoor
      Date: 08/02/004

      Comment: Created core tags

       Author: Mark Wilson

       Date: 08/01/04

       Comment: Cleaned up some tags

-->

…

You can even comment html tags if you want. This can be useful if you are trying different tags and would like to see only one at a given time. The following example will make the usage clear.

<h1>SKapoor Enterprise</h1>

<!-- <h2>SKapoor Enterprise</h2>-->

<!-- <h3>SKapoor Enterprise</h3>-->

<!-- <h4>SKapoor Enterprise</h4>-->

<!-- <h5>SKapoor Enterprise</h5>-->

As you can see I am not really sure which font size the company name should have. Therefore I have included several sizes to see the difference, but only the first one will be visible in the browser. I could view each one by one and comment out the others, so that I can choose the best size for my layout.

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