HTML comments are enclosed within <!– and –>, and serve to annotate code for developers. They provide explanations, reminders, or instructions that are invisible on the rendered webpage. These comments aid collaboration and enhance code readability.
Comment | Descriptions | Syntax |
|---|---|---|
Single-line | The single-line comment is given inside the ( <!– comment –> ) tag. | <!– comment –> |
Multi-line | It follows the syntax of a single-line comment by adding multiple lines in the comment. | <!– Multi |
<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
<title>Online HTML Editor</title>
</head>
<body>
<!-- This is a single Comment-->
<h1>INterntpoint</h1>
<!-- This is a single line Commnet -->
<p>Simply Easy Learning</p>
</body>
</html>Conditional Comments
Conditional comments are a feature specific to Internet Explorer (IE) on Windows but they are ignored by other browsers. They are supported from Explorer 5 onwards.
<html>
<head>
<title>Conditional Comments</title>
<!--[if IE 6]>
Special instructions for IE 6 here
<![endif]-->
</head>
<body>
<p>Document content goes here.....</p>
</body>
</html>Comments are also great for debugging HTML, because you can comment out HTML lines of code