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Comments in HTML

<div id="header">
   <p>Stuff</p>
</div> <!-- END div-header -->

The <!– –> stuff is the HTML comment. It is a way to add notes into the code which will not display when the HTML is rendered by the browser. In the example above, to signify which opening div tag the closing tag was actually closing.

4 Responses

  1. Joseph Watkins says:
    10/22/2009 at 6:22 pm

    That’s awesome Bro, will this work as a comment box ?
    Much appreciated.

    Watkinsservices@live.com

    Thanks again,
    -Joe

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  2. Grant says:
    08/22/2010 at 6:49 pm

    Hey @Joshephy Watkins

    If you are talking about a comment box like what I typed this message in, it won’t. It will just put a note in the HTML code for you to use later (I usually go stuf…… To keep everything organized

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