HTML Comment Tags
You can add comments to your HTML source by using the following syntax:
Note: There is an exclamation point (!) in the opening tag, but not in the closing tag. |
Comments are not displayed by the browser, but they can help document your HTML.
With comments you can place notifications and reminders in your HTML:
Example
<p>This is a paragraph.</p>
<!– Remember to add more information here here –>
Comments are also great for debugging HTML, because you can comment out HTML lines of code, one at a time, to search for errors:
Example
<img border=”0″ src=”/images/pulpit.jpg” alt=”Pulpit rock” width=”304″ height=”228″>
–>
Software Program Tags
HTML comments tags can also be generated by various HTML software programs.
For example the <!–webbot bot–> tags which are wrapped inside HTML comments by FrontPage.
As a rule, let these tags stay, to help support the software.
Conditional Comments
Only Internet Explorer recognizes conditional comments.
Conditional comments enable you to add a browser specific code that executes only if the browser is IE but is treated as a comment by other browsers.
You can add conditional comments to your HTML document by using the following syntax:
Example
<!–[if IE 6]>This is IE 6<br><![endif]–>
<!–[if IE 7]>This is IE 7<br><![endif]–>
<!–[if IE 8]>This is IE 8<br><![endif]–>
<!–[if IE 9]>This is IE 9<br><![endif]–>