Class 7 | Comments | Learn HTML

HTML Comment Tags

You can add comments to your HTML source by using the following syntax:

<!– Write your comments here –>

Comments in HTML are not displayed by the browser, but they can help document your HTML.

With comments you can place notifications and reminders in your HTML. Try these examples and see the differences:

<!– This is a comment –>

<p>This is a paragraph.</p>

<!– Remember to add more information 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:

<!– Do not display

<img border=”0″ src=”pic_mountain.jpg” alt=”Mountain”>

–>

Conditional Comments

You might stumble upon conditional comments in HTML:

<!–[if IE 8]>

…. some HTML here ….

<![endif]–>

Software Program Tags

HTML comments tags can also be generated by various HTML software programs.

For example <!–webbot bot–> tags wrapped inside HTML comments by FrontPage and

Expression Web. As a rule, let these tags stay, to help support the software that created them.