HTML Comments Tutorial

Comments can be hidden in your HTML source code. You can also hide a whole block of code or content by marking it out using an HTML comment. A comment is written like this:

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

A comment is ignored by browsers, so it doesn't show up on the web page. You can insert comments in your code for a few different purposes:

Leave an explanatory note for yourself for future reference.
Use comments to label sections of your code to make them easier to find when editing.
Use comments to temporarily hide HTML code or content until you're ready to reveal it.
Use comments to hide scripts from older browsers.

Be sure to include a space after the first two dashes (--) and another space before the last two dashes.

This concludes the HTML Comments Tutorial.

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