HTML Comments

Comment tags !- - and --> are used to insert comments in HTML.

HTML Comment Tags

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

!- Write your comments here --><
don't forget the open tag.

Comments are not displayed in the browser, but they can help document your HTML.
With comments you can place notifications and reminders in your HTML.

!- This is a comment -->
This is a paragraph.

!--Remember to add more information here -->

Comments are also great for debugginf HTML because you can comment out HTML lines
of code, one at a time, to search for errors:

Example:

!--Do not display this at this moment.
img boder="0" src="pic_mountain.j[g" alt="Mountain"> -->

Conditional Comments

!--[if IE 8]>
.... some HTML here ....
![endif]-->
Conditional comments defines HTML tags to be executed by Internet Explorer only.

Software Program Tags

HTML comment tags can also be generated by various HTML
comments by Front Page and Expression Web.
As a rule let these tags stay. to the support the software that created them.

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