Check Lesson 8 – HTML Comments from Learn HTML section on e akhabaar
HTML Comment tags are used to show comments within your source code. These tags are not displayed by a browsers on your computer screen. But however, it is a good practice to include these tags in your source code as they help you and other coders to understand a html code easily.
HTML comment tags are represented by . Therefore, if any text is inserted between these tags , will be marked as comments and will not be displayed by your browser. Example is explained below:
Hello, You can find free html tutorial at www.freetutorialpoint.com.
The result will be displayed as:
Hello, You can find free html tutorial at www.freetutorialpoint.com.
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Conditional Comments:
Conditional comments are only supported by Internet Explorer 5 onwards, and not by any other browser. These tags are used to pass on conditional instructions to I.E. to do some specific task when a particular criteria is matched. For example, when you need to execute some additional html tags based on Internet Explorer versions, in such situations you can use conditional comment tags.
write your conditional instructions here for IE 8
Some paragraph text
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Comment Tags for Other Browsers:
There are some comment tags, which are supported by other browsers, and not by Internet Explorer e.g.
You are
Result displayed by Internet Explorer:
You are using Internet Explorer
Result displayed by other browsers:
You are not using Internet Explorer
Chapter Summery:
- Use html tag to add ‘comments’ in your html source code.
- Use html tag to add ‘comments’ for Internet Explorer only.
- Use html
tag to add ‘comments’ for other browsers.
Interview Questions:
- Can we add multiple line comments in html comment tags?
Yes, you can add multiple line comments in html comment tag. Place opening tag before first line and closing tag – -> after last line to add multiple line comments. Let’s learn with below example how to do this:
Line one goes here
Line two goes here
Line three goes here
– ->
Write your paragraph text here
The result will be displayed as:
Write your paragraph text here
- Can we put one comment tag inside other comment tag?
No, comment tags don’t nest with each other, which means you can’t put one comment inside another comment.
- What if, we have to add the double dash sequence “- -” inside the comment. Can we do this in html comment tag?
No, you can’t add double dash sequence inside the comment tag except for closing tag.
Practice Exercise :
First practice question will start from here
First question: HTML stands for ?
In above html code:
- Put comment tag around text “First practice question will start from here”
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