Flash cards
Review the key moves
What is the main idea behind HTML Comments?
Lesson checks
Practice each idea before moving on
Short Mimo-style checks built from this lesson's code, terms, and sequence.
Which statement best captures the main point of this lesson?
Complete the missing token from the example code.
<!-- ___ your comments here -->Put the learning moves in the order that makes the concept easiest to apply.
HTML comments are not displayed in the browser, but they can help document your HTML source code.
HTML Comment Tag
You can add comments to your HTML source by using the following syntax:
<!-- Write your comments here -->Notice that there is an exclamation point (!) in the start tag, but not in the end tag.
Note
Comments are not displayed by the browser, but they can help document your HTML source code.
Add Comments
With comments you can place notifications and reminders in your HTML code:
Example
<!-- This is a comment -->
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<!-- Remember to add more information here -->Live preview
Hide Content
Comments can be used to hide content.
This can be helpful if you hide content temporarily:
Example
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<!-- <p>This is another paragraph
</p> -->
<p>This is a paragraph too.</p>Live preview
You can also hide more than one line. Everything between the <!-- and the --> will be hidden from the display.
Example
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<!--
<p>Look at this cool
image:</p>
<img border="0" src="pic_trulli.jpg"
alt="Trulli">
-->
<p>This is a paragraph too.</p>Live preview
Comments are also great for debugging HTML, because you can comment out HTML lines of code, one at a time, to search for errors.
Hide Inline Content
Comments can be used to hide parts in the middle of the HTML code.
Example
<p>This <!-- great text --> is a paragraph.</p>Live preview